On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:56:42PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > There are situations where I can't get root - mostly on scientific > > cluster environments. I don't think it is a priority, but it would be > > a good to have if it works. > > Yes, that’s an issue. Unfortunately, users would sacrifice > reproducibility by running the daemon as non-root (and we would get > reports about builds that fail unexpectedly), and using a non-standard > store directory may also hit shebang length limits and so on. > > So I think we must bribe a bunch of HPC sysadmins ;-), get experience > with real system-wide installations on such systems, and see what needs > to be adjusted. Thanks to Ricardo and his lab we already have some > feedback: <http://elephly.net/posts/2015-04-17-gnu-guix.html>.
It is a good writeup, indeed, and may help make a case. Somehow the people who run clusters are not so enlightened. > If you are in a position where you can experiment with such a setup, > your experience would be invaluable! I am not in a position to change things, but maybe others are. The good news is that VMs are becoming more common and may drive change. Give it another 5-10 years and I expect it to be less of an issue. Pj.
