GNU bug report logs - #42983
"sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular user

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 42983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42983: "sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular user
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 23:24:43 +0200

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Hi Leo,

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:22:41 -0400
Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> wrote:

> What is expected to happen in this case? Why would one want to use an
> unprivileged environment with privileges to do `guix pull`, which is a
> per-user operation?

Paul did not know that it is a per-user operation.

I did almost exactly the same thing when I was a new guix user.
That's pretty much what one is used to from Debian etc.

I don't really know whether it should do anything useful, but the current
situation is seriously weird.

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