Hi, On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Pjotr Prins <[email protected]> wrote: > PRoot has given me the easiest and nicest Nix install in user land > *EVER*. PRoot tricks Linux in adding a /nix/store mounted on $HOME > somewhere. > > I have updated the wiki: > > > https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_%28on_another_distribution%29 > > Finally a Nix that is happy in $HOME, and I get binary installs too. > > Magic, really. Game changer. Totally. > > $HOME installs are essential for scientific computing. Thanks Ian-Woo > Kim for giving the pointer. >
Hm, that's nice. But given the PRoot works using ptrace, it's probably very slow, right? Also I think it's nicer and easier to setup similar thing using user namespaces which are available in linux kernel >= 3.8. It's possible with LXC or with just "unshare" utility from coreutils and a couple of lines of bash. -- Paul _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
