rules_pkg fails to build when user is root

[turmanticant]

Hey! It looks like rules_pkg depends on rules_python. This rule calls fail when the current user is root.

ERROR: /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/eab0d61a99b6696edb3d2aff87b585e8/external/rules_pkg~/pkg/private/tar/BUILD:47:10: @@rules_pkg~//pkg/private/tar:build_tar depends on @@rules_python~~python~python_3_11_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu//:py_exec_tools_toolchain in repository @@rules_python~~python~python_3_11_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu which failed to fetch. no such package '@@rules_python~~python~python_3_11_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu//': The current user is root, please run as non-root when using the hermetic Python interpreter. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/pull/713.

My project doesn't use python, but to work around this error I add rules_python to my module file and patch out the check that fails.

Looking on the rules_python issue tracker someone mentioned that you can configure this behavior.

Would it be possible to configure this in your MODULE.bazel?

python_register_toolchains(
    name = ...,
    python_version = ...,
    ignore_root_user_error = True,
)