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A comment on GNU Guix 1.2.0. Parent comment

Re:GNU Guix 1.2.0 by edgyquant on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:39PM (#25195323)
Not sure about guix but the unprivileged part isn’t true of nix as you do need root to install initially.
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Re:GNU Guix 1.2.0 by kaba0 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:53AM (#25196583)
It is only required because /nix is hardcoded (but only to make using binary caches possible). Later on, writing to this store is done by a nix user, and install can be issued by a normal user.
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