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glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

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Message #31 received at 40123 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael <at> djurfeldt.com>
Cc: david larsson <david.larsson <at> selfhosted.xyz>,
 bug-Guix <bug-guix-bounces+someone=selfhosted.xyz <at> gnu.org>,
 40123 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:15:33 -0400

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:57:53PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> David, for your problem, I'm wondering if it couldn't be related to what
> everyone has asked me: how you become root.

Usually when you need to "be root" it just means that you want superuser
privileges, so people do `sudo su` or `sudo apt-get install foo`. It
works to execute the command, and most of the time it doesn't matter
which user actually runs the command.

But Guix is specifically designed as a per-user package manager. Each
user has their own view of "what is installed". It does matter who runs
commands like `guix pull` and `guix package`, because those commands
only affect the user who runs them.

This is why we are careful when giving examples using sudo, saying
either `sudo -E [--preserve-env]` or `sudo -i [--login]`, so that one
explicitly chooses which user to be.

The issue you had could be related...

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