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[PATCH 0/6] Rootless guix-daemon on Guix System

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>, 77288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Reepca Russelstein <reepca <at> russelstein.xyz>
Subject: [bug#77288] [PATCH 6/6] DRAFT news: Add entry about unprivileged guix-daemon on Guix System.
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:38:54 +0100

Hi Florian,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> Rootless daemon is an important change, though I have not tested yet...
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> +Eventually running @command{guix-daemon} without root privileges may become
>> +the default.")))
>> +
>
> I dislike the word “may” in this last sentence.  How about “likely
> will” or some such thing, even if we have not reviewed bugfreeness of
> Linux here?

Sure; I view “may” and “likely will” as synonymous, but maybe there are
subtleties that escape me.

> Can you tell foreign distro users about their rootless options in the
> news, too?

This news item is specifically about Guix System (announced upfront),
but I guess we can add a sentence toward the end.  (Thing is, the
situation will be simpler on foreign distros: we won’t support switching
between privileged and unprivileged, so either you get one or the
other.)

Thanks for the comments and for the translation!

Ludo’.

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