Hi, this blog post contains many great examples of how to deploy Guix applications without root access:
http://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/ I think that all of these methods should be wrapped up by Guix itself, so that none of this has to be done manually. I’d also like to include Pjotr’s hack in this, which involves rewriting /gnu/store references. It’s icky but effective and one of the reasons why Conda is so popular (they rewrite references in their binaries as well, but less principled than, say, grafts). How about an extension of “guix pack” that will rewrite the /gnu/store references to a user-provided directory before bundling things up in a tarball? I’d *really* like to be able to just use the tarball bundle “guix pack” produces by default, but currently deploying it requires root access or proot shenanigans at runtime. How about making manual hacking with unshare and chroot obsolete by including a simple executable in the pack that handles this rewriting for the user…? With that we would be one step closer to the user experience of Docker — without having a runtime dependency on Docker. What do you think? -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net