Subject: Re: Home is read-only in guix shell container

From: Rutherther <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 13:44:16 +0200

> I am not sure whether this is intended behavior, but it seems weird to 
> me. Inside e.g.
> 
> guix shell -Cu test coreutils
> 
> /home/test is mounted read-only and I do not see any way to make it 
> writable without sharing a host directory.

Yes this is intentional. The root has been changed to read only
recently. See the guix news. Use --writable-root to restore the previous behavior.