Re: Propose to distribute a user-only install script, not admin required

2020-05-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Josh, Josh Marshall 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 sho

Re: Propose to distribute a user-only install script, not admin required

2020-05-24 Thread Josh Marshall
Another non-chroot option is `fakechroot`, which seems to get the same effect without root. It does make me wonder why `chroot` requires privileged access at all. As I'm slowly getting more familiar with guix, the more I think the internal design ought to change. I'm finding that how it works ri

Re: Propose to distribute a user-only install script, not admin required

2020-05-16 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi Josh, Tobias, et al, On +2020-05-16 17:47:39 +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Josh, > > Josh Marshall 写道: > > 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

Re: Propose to distribute a user-only install script, not admin required

2020-05-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Josh, Josh Marshall 写道: 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. An old but classic place to start