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I don't know of anyone running nix with the nix store being in their home directory, as it would require recompiling the entire world and receiving no benefit o
by grhmc 10y ago
I don't know of anyone running nix with the nix store being in their home directory, as it would require recompiling the entire world and receiving no benefit of the pre-built cache. Much more commonly the user will install a "single-user" mode nix, where the nix store is still located at `/nix/store` (in the root,) where it could possibly be that multiple users share it.
- ghkbrew 10y agoIt does seem to be much less common, but the home directory based nix install is extremely useful if you don't actually have admin rights on the machine. I.e. in basically any institutional system. I have a very handy nix install in my home directory on a university supercomputing cluster. As annoying as it is to have to compile everything it's much better than not having that software at all or having to go though the sys admins to maybe get something installed a month later.