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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Propose to distribute a user-only install script, not admin required
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 17:47:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imgvop9g.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFkJGRcqFGi9sQL7GLwBEVr_0YQ9THGfX9-VxgpTxgcvTaJr1Q@mail.gmail.com>

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Josh,

Josh Marshall 写道:
> One thing which I think could significantly aid adoption would 
> be up
> either add an option or add a new installer script with guix
> configured to install and run purely out of the user's home 
> directory
> without any special permissions.

An old but classic place to start is [0] which explains some of 
the problems & trade-offs, and illustrates an approach that may or 
may not still work today.

My subjective impression was that this used to be more of a big 
deal (i.e. a few years ago) than it is now.  I don't know if it's 
less of a problem these days, or people gave up on asking, or 
perhaps I'm not in the right channels to hear the clamouring.

Part of me thanks you for bringing this up again.  I'm interested 
to see where it goes.

Another part of me fears that ‘rootless Guix’ is just the perfect 
excuse for misguided admins to give their users a pale and 
flavourless Guix experience.  It would rather taint the brand.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: 
https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-16 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-16 15:25 Propose to distribute a user-only install script, not admin required Josh Marshall
2020-05-16 15:47 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2020-05-17  2:05   ` Bengt Richter
2020-05-24 19:19     ` Josh Marshall
2020-05-24 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès

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