GNU Guix launches

To be fair, I use virtualisation in the broadest sense myself, but when you have package management systems like opkg which appear to be able to operate for unprivileged users in their own chosen areas of the filesystem, having to use "virtualisation" even at the level of maintaining separate chroot environments has to be seen as a kludge and not the product of two virtuous technologies coming together to "solve" an apparently unsolvable problem. If anything, it just pushes the complexity avoided by the somewhat overly conservative design decisions of the package management systems concerned onto some other activity instead.