The other day I was looking for a simple, lightweight userspace binary package manager. Nix was exciting for a minute until I realized it requires root to install unless you jump through hoops.
My goal is to be able to have something so lightweight and fast I don't hesitate to use it to install my favorite packages on every ephemeral VM I spin up. Anything like this out there?
Nix does need root by default, but I use this https://github.com/nix-community/nix-user-chroot on all the Linux boxes I use.