On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 02:22:36PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > But, AIUI, this goes against the guix concept of an immutable store. > To describe and name this function to imply that one could/should edit > recipes in the store based on the "corner case" of root having the > ultimable ability to do so seems counter to how you would want to > encourage even a root user to proceed. Recipes are not in the store. For instance, after doing a "make install", they are in $PREFIX/share/guile/site/2.0/. Or maybe they are in the store after a "guix pull"? I am only using the "make install" version for a system-wide installation, and a git checkout for making more recent recipes available to one user. Andreas