[Reposting with correct sender. Sorry, David.]

Great! I ran into this when trying to compile and run guix on a machine at work, where I'm not root.

I was planning to run guix as a stow of steroids. But I'm still wondering whether what I'm attempting is even intended to be possible? Of course, I would lose the benefits of user separation, chroot, hydra (because I can't write to /gnu) etc, but is guix even made to be able to downgrade to this situation?