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		zzzcpan on Oct 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternat... Nix now can download and install binaries into a home directory? I thought it would require quite a bit of work on a building process and binary patching post installation, since you know, a lot of things require absolute paths, like an elf interpreter for example.

Sean1708 on Oct 9, 2017 | [–]

As far as I'm aware any user (regardless of whether they have root) can install/update/delete packages when Nix is run in multi-user mode[0].

[0]: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-nix-security

marcosdumay on Oct 9, 2017 | [–]

The NixOS way would be to install binaries at the system directories, but for your user only.

I don't know if this is possible with plain Nix (not the OS).

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