On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) <g...@clacke.user.lysator.liu.se> wrote: > [Reposting with correct sender. Sorry, David.] > > Great! I ran into this when trying to compile and run guix on a machine at > work, where I'm not root. > > I was planning to run guix as a stow of steroids. But I'm still wondering > whether what I'm attempting is even intended to be possible? Of course, I > would lose the benefits of user separation, chroot, hydra (because I can't > write to /gnu) etc, but is guix even made to be able to downgrade to this > situation?
Answering myself: It is there in the Fine Manual. So it's intended to work. I will try this and see how far I come. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Build-Environment-Setup "If you are installing Guix as an unprivileged user, it is still possible to run guix-daemon provided you pass --disable-chroot." -- /c
