What does HackerNews think of nix-user-chroot?

Install & Run nix without root permissions [maintainer=@Mic92]

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Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix | Jan 2023
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> There are workarounds but none of them official.

But does it need to be official? Wouldn't that at the same time bloat nix even more? Isn't it enough if core people of the community for example build https://github.com/nix-community/nix-user-chroot ?

> In reality the only easy way to get it done is to use additional non-foss software

That is not true at all. You can use a nix docker image, a 5 line nix file and 2 commands to do a very basic CI pipeline almost anywhere.
Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew | Nov 2022
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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.
Hacking anything with GNU Guix | Sep 2022
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Not sure about guix, but for nixos we have https://github.com/nix-community/nix-user-chroot