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Can someone explain what benefits do I get for using this rather than the package manager offered by my distribution? And do you need root access to install gui
by s_husso 14y ago
Can someone explain what benefits do I get for using this rather than the package manager offered by my distribution? And do you need root access to install guix? Because if you do then
> unprivileged package management
seems quite, well, useless imho. If on the other hand everything in guix lives in the userland, I can see myself using it in the servers I don't have root-access to..
- eyko 14y agoNo, you do not need root access in order to install guix. Put it in your home folder, there, done. For ease of use add it to your $PATH.
- s_husso 14y agoThanks for clearing it up :)
- kokey 14y agoIt does feel a bit like it can become a platform independent alternative to something like Cygwin. Along the lines of ActiveState perl, but a whole GNU environment instead.
- zem 14y agoi wonder if userdir-based language package managers like rvm, cabal and opam can profitably rebase themselves atop guix.