bug#22607: doc install from *Guix Package Info: profile* fails

[Alex Kost]

Alex Kost (2016-02-10 13:14 +0300) wrote:

> myglc2 (2016-02-10 03:58 +0300) wrote:
>
[...]
>> Also, just to be clear, I was not trying to install the curses.6 doc
>> globally. I was trying to install it locally as 1) user, and when that
>> failed as 2) root.
>
> Now I understand your intention, but in fact you tried to install it to
> a system profile both times.
>
> After all I see why you were confused.  Emacs interface has always been
> aimed only for a user profile.  "M-x guix-system-generations" was added
> very recently just to show what systems you have and what global
> packages they contain, and by accident you can perform the same actions on
> these system packages as with user profile.
>
> I'm going to remove this false possibility (I mean, a user shouldn't get
> a chance to install anything to a system profile) to avoid future
> confusions.

Done in commit 260795b.

-- 
Alex