Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> I suppose /etc/pam.d/ also needs to be in the container.
>>>
>>> Tried it, same error.
>>>
>>>>> What about defaulting to 1000?  It's rather common, so I guess that
>>>>> would be anonymous enough and "just work".
>>>>
>>>> Would it make sense to map the current user’s UID into the container
>>>> instead of using a fixed UID?
>>>
>>> We have a "--user" option, so we could use the current user's UID when
>>> --user is not specified, 1000 otherwise.
>>> Or better: add a --uid CLI option.
>>
>> I can see confusion coming from the existence of both “--user” and
>> “--uid”.  Maybe “--user” could take an optional argument, with the
>> default being the current user.  Without “--user” we’d use UID 1000.
>
> Currently, without --user, we keep the current user’s name.  So it would
> actually be consistent to inherit its UID as well.  And with ‘--user’,
> we’d use the given user name and UID 1000.  (Essentially what Pierre
> proposed above.)

Excellent, this sounds good.

-- 
Ricardo