From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Ruby install Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:29:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20140505082922.GB31474@thebird.nl> References: <20140504175144.GA28798@thebird.nl> <87wqe0ps8d.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhEV6-0003jJ-VT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 04:43:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhEV0-0001N5-Qq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 04:43:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wqe0ps8d.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:03:30AM +0200, Ludovic Court=E8s wrote: > > I am really impressed with GUIX, and I think it is a no-brainer to us= e > > a real functional programming language for this.=20 I was imprecise here. It is my first real foray into LISP. What I meant is that it is great to use a real programming language with the most important functional characteristics of recursion and anonymous functions :) I believe much of Nix could be greatly simplified if they had opted for this route. Did you see NixOS is speeding up the ranks in distrowatch? I bet that is partly due to GUIX. > > Thanks Ludo and > > others! I just wish I could use GUIX on servers where I don't have (= and > > won't get) root access. Or is there a way? With Nix I could run as a > > normal user. >=20 > It???s the same as Nix, which means that if the daemon cannot run as ro= ot, > then it???s usable in a ???degraded??? mode (info "(guix) Build Environ= ment > Setup"). That is good news. Anyone here using it as such? Pj.