From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: guix is the guildhall that we always wanted! Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:39:26 +0000 Message-ID: <20170317173926.GA8947@mail.thebird.nl> References: <87zigl3wph.fsf@pobox.com> <87a88kf8cu.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuicm6ck.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fuicm6ck.fsf@igalia.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "guile-user" To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , guile-user@gnu.org List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org Hi Andy, It does look a lot like the channels we propose. Another thing to keep in mind is that it is possible to relocate guix binaries into any prefix so you do not actually need root privileges. It is something I am using for testing packages on HPC without root and I am going to make binaries available for the bioconda project. Pj.