Hi Guix, recently I’ve been playing with “guix pack -RR” and I’m very happy to see how well it works. Now I wonder if we could use the very same mechanism to wrap guix-daemon and let it manage a store directory that is not located at /gnu/store.
Surely somebody has already tried this? A common complaint about Guix is that it requires root permissions to install, which is “scary” and may seem unnecessary on single-user systems. By wrapping guix-daemon so that it uses file system virtualization (via user namespaces, proot, or the glibc debug hack) we could eliminate this obstacle. What do you think? Am I missing something obvious? -- Ricardo
