[Nix-dev] Installing in $HOME and datadir

[Luca Bruno]

On 06/11/2014 16:05, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 02:39:47PM +0000, Wout Mertens wrote:
>>    So is proot much slower than native? I suppose it also depends on the
>>    kernel version.
> It is slower because it intercepts a number of system calls and
> rewrites paths and permissions on the fly. It really depends on your
> application whether you will notice it. If you have lot's of IO you
> may be better off without.
>
> It is incredibly cool that I can download, install and run nix
> binaries without having root on a system.
Did anybody try fakeroot and fakechroot? Those are used by debian for
building packages. Maybe they don't cover a lot of cases though.