Hi Florian, Florian Thevissen <m...@florian-thevissen.de> skribis:
> Hi Ludovic, > > Not really answering your question, but would user namespaces be an > option for you? If so, > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-05/msg00139.html> > might be a simpler option. > > Thank you for the suggestion, this does look interesting. > > However, the original use-case of using guix in a non-root scenario is > no longer relevant to me: I was convincing enough to get guix > root-installed on all relevant machines on which I do not have root > access. So I can enjoy guix properly, now. Well, congrats. :-) Note that <https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog> has some thoughts on non-root usage that may be of interest to you. > However, I could very well imagine guix to be used on a per-user > basis, acting on some sub-directory of $HOME. Afterall, many (most?) > desktop-systems are used by a single user - or so I would argue… I agree that non-root usage would be useful; it’s just that the kernel Linux doesn’t make it easy, unless user namespaces are enabled… Thanks, Ludo’.