Hi Josh, Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com> skribis:
> One thing which I think could significantly aid adoption would be up > either add an option or add a new installer script with guix > configured to install and run purely out of the user's home directory > without any special permissions. Conceptually, guix shouldn't need to > have any elevated permissions given it is acceptable to use resources > less efficiently when they are in contention. This would also allow > guix to be a drop in replacement to tools which already allow > individual users to install and use them without a hassle, like > Anaconda. I think we should consider providing a binary tarball produced with ‘guix pack -RR’ instead of just ‘guix pack’. It’s possible to run “rootless” Guix from there: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-05/msg00139.html With minor changes to the daemon, we could arrange so that users don’t have to fiddle with environment variables or anything. Now, I fear that the typical use case for that is places where user namespaces aren’t available, which means a degraded experience. (See the rant at the bottom of <https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/05/faster-relocatable-packs-with-fakechroot/>.) Thoughts? Ludo’.
