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Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:21:32 +0100
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> I’m thinking we should change ‘guix environment -C’ to map to a UID
> other than zero, at least by default.  When developing code, some tools
> may behave differently when running under UID 0 and that’s rarely what
> we need I think.  Thoughts?

I agree.  Defaulting to UID 0 is not good.  (“conda” is an example of
one application that has very different behaviour when it thinks it is
running as root.)

--
Ricardo




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