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authorLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2017-08-07 14:09:04 -0400
committerLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2017-08-07 14:09:49 -0400
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Revert "doc: Suggest running guix-daemon with 'sudo -E'."
This change might not correct, so we revert it for now: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-08/msg00057.html This reverts commit 6a4364335c967f841b53ed35c22f90445437e4b0.
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@@ -110,13 +110,10 @@ actually installing them. So that you can distinguish between your
To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not
run @code{make install}. To do that, prefix each command with
@command{./pre-inst-env} (the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the
-top build tree of Guix), as in@footnote{The @option{-E} flag to
-@command{sudo} guarantees that @code{GUILE_LOAD_PATH} is correctly set
-such that @command{guix-daemon} and the tools it uses can find the Guile
-modules they need.}:
+top build tree of Guix), as in:
@example
-$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
+$ sudo ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello
@end example