[Nix-dev] Installing in $HOME and datadir

[Wout Mertens]

So is proot much slower than native? I suppose it also depends on the
kernel version.

On Thu Nov 06 2014 at 11:11:11 AM Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 at thebird.nl>
wrote:

> 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.
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