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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Installing guix packages without root permissions (in HPC
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:55:30 +0100
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Hi!

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:42:09PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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=E2=80=99s goo=
d.  :-)
>
> 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 =E2=80=9Cguix archive -f docker=E2=80=9D may also be handy (and s=
afer)?

Cheers,
Ludo=E2=80=99.