Make $HOME writable #52
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There is of course a 7 line warning explaining why it isn't writable but I guess it went over my head so I tried making it writable anyway, wouldn't using an
mktempdirectory already avoid the issues/differences between multi-user and single-user Nix anyway without making it unwritable?Making this writable resolves issues with
node-gyp, which wants to re-download things from the internet during the build process if it can't find things in$HOME, there's probably some weird env vars to work around this, but this seemed like the simplest path to take (and I have this done elsewhere too).npm_config_nodediris also something I've seen used previously (at least in pnpm2nix), which supposedly also helps with install scripts wanting to download things when they shouldn't.There should probably still a comment but I didn't write it myself since I think I don't quite understand the issue.