Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis: > What I mean is that for my target audience, bioinformaticians, most > number crunching is on aging Centos-style machines. If Nix is the > easiest route to get Guix going for now I am perfectly happy to > promote that, until Guix has it's own installation binaries as Nix has > (binary tarball, rpm, deb etc.). The Nix binaries, unfortunately, do > require root, which we don't have on all compute clusters, so I still > end up building that from source.
I should mention that one may be able to install Guix using the pre-built statically linked Guile that’s used in the bootstrap process (look for DOWNLOAD_FILE at the end of gnu-system.am.) Then the system still needs to provide libgcrypt.so, libbz2, and a few others. Ludo’.
