[Nix-dev] Installing in $HOME and datadir

[Wout Mertens]

Afaict proot is the most complete...

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014, 16:09 Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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