Ryan Prior <[email protected]> writes: > On November 26, 2020, Jelle Licht <[email protected]> wrote: >> On other distros it defaults to a location that is not writable by >> normal users either; > > Indeed I can confirm that Ubuntu node also has this problem. > >> Another way folks solved this problem has been using "nvm" which in >> practice boiled down to [setting a >> custom global prefix, just managed by nvm now]. > > I think Guix should work more like nvm than like other distros in this > case. If this is something we could handle automatically per-profile, > then that gives us the opportunity to do the right thing and save the > user some hassle.
As long as we don't change existing behaviour by ignoring custom global prefixes explicitly requested by the user, this seems fine to me. Do other language-specific package managers packaged in guix not run into similar issues? - Jelle
