[Nix-dev] Installing in $HOME and datadir

[Pjotr Prins]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:41:40PM +0300, Paul Colomiets wrote:
> Hm, that's nice. But given the PRoot works using ptrace, it's probably
> very slow, right?

I have bootstrapped Nix using Proot. To get native performance for
installed software I use that to build packages from source in a new
STORE. Documented here:

  https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_%28on_another_distribution%29#Building_native_packages

This works great when you have no root (on older setups).

Pj.