Re: Using Guix inside a Guix container

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:

> That’s an interesting use case!  I guess we have a hard-enough time
> getting the message through regarding the environment of tasks that we
> didn’t really consider the environment of the “driver”.

It takes something messy such as Snakemake to illustrate the importance
of this.

> (Well, in a way, GWL and Guix-Jupyter sidestep the issue by integrating
> the mechanism to declare task environments.)

OK, let's pass a law that workflows must be written in Guile or in a
language implemented in Guile ;-)

> I’d be inclined to add a new ‘-W’ (say) option to (1) share the whole
> store, and (2) share the daemon socket.  That would be the documented
> way to create a container with support for nested containers.

Sounds good to me!

> That one’s interesting.  Reported here:
>
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/61690
>
> At least there’s a workaround: using ‘-CN’ in the nested container.

That's already good to know.

Thanks,
  Konrad.