Hello!

Could you please make that change on top of the current version of the
> Guix sources as a git commit?  Then you can run “git format-patch -1” to
> format it as a patch in a format that we can apply.  You can send the
> resulting patch file as an attachment to a reply to this email.
> This also fixes bug #30728, so please add this line to the commit
> message:
> --
> Ricardo


I have attached the patch file to this email. This patch fixes the
installation process but it place guix within root's directory.

I personally prefer that the Guix daemon points to my home directory
> because I don't want to update root's profile.  Some other people might
> prefer that it points to ~root because they might later delete their
> profile and want Guix to keep working.


> Do we have to take a decision here?  Can't we just let the user decide
> by letting them customize their environment variables?  I think it is
> the point of environment variables: giving freedom to users.


We can further work on the script's flexibility using the environment
variable solution.

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Tatiana