Hello! rohit yadav <[email protected]> skribis:
> I am using guix for sometime now and I must admit, it is very clean > compared to nix. However, I want to install it on system where I do not > have root permission. Is is possible? If so, how? It is possible, but currently inconvenient and brittle, as noted at the bottom of: https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Environment-Setup.html The problems are: 1. you’d be producing binaries for, say, /home/rohit/gnu/store instead of /gnu/store, so you’d have to build everything by yourself since the substitutes from hydra.gnu.org are for use in /gnu/store; 2. you’d have no build isolation and long file names, which is likely to break builds here and there (things will use stuff from /usr/bin and /lib, shebangs will be longer than the kernel-imposed limit, etc.) There have been discussions to improve the situation, and work in that direction will hopefully start this year¹. The preferred approach will be the “user namespace” feature of the kernel Linux; does your system support it, out of curiosity? Thanks, Ludo’. ¹ See the discussion that starts at <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00947.html>.
