Re: package store directory in custom location

[Julien Lepiller]

Hi Andy,

so you could change the store location, but it would just create the same stone 
structure as /gnu/store elsewhere, with the same issues and no substitutes.

Instead you could try to create a relocatable pack of python, and untar it 
somewhere writable. There might be a small runtime penalty, but we're talking 
about python anyway :)

HTH!

Le 26 février 2023 02:03:01 GMT+01:00, Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> a écrit :
>Hi, is it possible to have  a /gnu/store/ directory for a package in a
>custom path?  A usage scenario is, say, to have a python interpreter,
>with its package directory that normally exists as
>/gnu/store/<something>, to be somewhere I specified, so it would be
>possible to use that python with python's package manager to install
>python modules as site packages specific to this python (as it is not
>easy to have all python modules available as packages in Guix)
>
>If this python can only run from the /gnu/store/... directory, trying
>to install site packages would normally fail (as /gnu/store/... is
>read only to non root user) and not good practice anyway (as
>/gnu/store/... is not meant to be user touched but only managed by
>Guix)
>