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

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I suppose /etc/pam.d/ also needs to be in the container.
>
> Tried it, same error.
>
>>> What about defaulting to 1000?  It's rather common, so I guess that
>>> would be anonymous enough and "just work".
>>
>> Would it make sense to map the current user’s UID into the container
>> instead of using a fixed UID?
>
> We have a "--user" option, so we could use the current user's UID when
> --user is not specified, 1000 otherwise.
> Or better: add a --uid CLI option.

I can see confusion coming from the existence of both “--user” and
“--uid”.  Maybe “--user” could take an optional argument, with the
default being the current user.  Without “--user” we’d use UID 1000.

What do you think?

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Ricardo