Hi! Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:42:09PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> Also, if we look at the big picture of non-root usage, this solution >> addresses the most hostile environments: no user namespaces, no >> container-spawning facility, no root guix-daemon, etc. Granted, these >> hostile environments are still commonplace in HPC, so that’s good. :-) > > Yes, if this works it will be rather good and create awareness for > Guix. Another use-case may be firefox plugins - or other software that > wants to install binaries. Maybe they'll wake up to guix too. From a > developers point of view Guix is awesome because it creates > reproducible environments that we can develop against. What more do we > need ;). We are now using it for a bug hunt on sambamba which only > segfaults on particular HPC setups. The guix relocatable installer is > going to help. Indeed. > I'll take the installer to the level that we can do one-step installs > and provide a few packages for download to reach out to certain > communities (dlang and elixir come to mind). For these “guix archive -f docker” may also be handy (and safer)? Cheers, Ludo’.
