Re: Are Guix and its install script incompatible with guix pack on purpose?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> Hi,
>
> In the installation script we have:
>> if [[ -e "/var/guix" || -e "/gnu" ]]; then
>>     _err "${ERR}A previous Guix installation was found. [...]
>>     exit 1
>> fi
>> [...]
>> mv "${tmp_path}/gnu" /
>
> Guix pack also install its files in /gnu, so if we somehow installed
> something built with guix pack we can't install Guix anymore.
>
> I've no idea why it's done in this way though as the git history
> doesn't tell and there is no comments either. 
>
> Is installing software made with Guix pack incompatible with Guix on
> purpose?

No.

“guix pack -RR” lets you unpack the archive wherever you want, so you
may want to use that.

You cannot have a /gnu/store directory managed by Guix *and also* place
whatever you want there.  When Guix manages /gnu/store it will remove
things that it doesn’t know about.

-- 
Ricardo