Carlo Zancanaro <ca...@zancanaro.id.au> skribis: > 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.
It surely helps, but I think it would be even better if ‘guix environment’ would directly include a way to reload the environment in its UI, like Dave was suggesting. Maybe it’s just a matter of adding a --reload option that does what you wrote above for you? Ludo’.
