Re: rootless Guix

2018-10-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ricardo! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> Right, I’m not sure what to do with binaries installed with this >> relocatable Guix: either we let the user run them from a relocatable >> shell that maps /gnu/store appropriately (as in the message above), >> which works

Re: rootless Guix

2018-10-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> it would be nice if we could simplify the case where a user does not >> have root access, but the system supports user namespaces. >> >> Currently, a user would have to perform a number of non-obvious steps to >> somehow run the

Re: rootless Guix

2018-10-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > it would be nice if we could simplify the case where a user does not > have root access, but the system supports user namespaces. > > Currently, a user would have to perform a number of non-obvious steps to > somehow run the Guix daemon in an environment where th

Re: rootless Guix

2018-10-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi, Not answering your question, but I think it's an awesome idea! Could this possibly be the last step needed to enable Guix as an "embeddable" package manager, in the sense that it could be used by any project as the main mean of distributing components? (E.g. a programming language with librar

rootless Guix

2018-10-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, it would be nice if we could simplify the case where a user does not have root access, but the system supports user namespaces. Currently, a user would have to perform a number of non-obvious steps to somehow run the Guix daemon in an environment where the filesystem is virtualized. It would