[Bio-packaging] Packaging

[Pjotr Prins]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:31:25PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > BTW Nix (on which Guix is based) actually allows building and
> > installing software in $HOME without root privileges.
> 
> This also works with Guix, but then the daemon cannot build software in
> isolated chroots.  It's something I'd avoid in production.  

Mostly because it is a non-tested setup (the combination of built
paths and dependencies). I must add that with linuxbrew that is quite
comparable.

I was successful with Nix, for sure.

> Guix works best when the daemon is run as root.  Note that for the
> Guix command line tools (e.g. to install or remove packages) no root
> privileges are required.

As long as the user has a writable Guix profile.

Pj.

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