On Tue, Aug 29 2017, David wrote: > There is a feature missing in 'guix environment': saving the resulting > profile for easy access later. I often want to build an environment > once and not update it for awhile, but with the current state of 'guix > environment' it's not possible. This leads me to pulling my hair out > when I do an upgrade of Guix and have to rebuild all of my development > environments. What was supposed to be a quick hack turns into a Guix > maintenance session.
I also got frustrated by this when trying to keep my own checkout of guix. Then I found out you can do this: guix environment guix --root=environment This puts a link to the environment under `environment` in the local directory. Then you can run `source environment/etc/profile; make` to rebuild guix. This also protects the environment from garbage collection, which was the actual problem I was trying to solve. Carlo
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