Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:45:02AM -0500, David Thompson wrote: >> guix environment guile guile-sdl # let's tinker with SDL in Guile > > Is this not already covered by doing a "guix package -i ...", tinkering, > and a roll-back? There is one more line to type for the roll-back. > The functionality with installing inputs is much more useful as it saves > a lot of typing, and looking up which inputs are needed.
That works, but it creates more of a mess than it ought to and isn't as automated. I do not want to add a new generation to my profile (that then must be explicitly GC'd later), and I want all of the environment variables automatically setup for me somewhat like the build daemon does. Furthermore, 'guix environment' can create a pure environment, where, in this example, only guile and guile-sdl things would be present in the search paths. -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate
