From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Named environments
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:58:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210914095848.5ia4ygmxpo4x7hze@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUBAvqCIouPzo9ug@noor.fritz.box>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:27:10AM +0200, Lars-Dominik Braun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > - Profiles don't seem to have certain desirable features that Guix environments do, such as pure execution, containerization with or without access to network or certain parts of the filesystem, etc. Maybe my understanding here is superficial and you can actually do this with profiles after all?
> you can actually start a `guix environment` from an existing profile
> using the -p switch and enjoy all of `guix environment`’s advantages
> already.
Yes, even with manifests. Typical is to create a profile -p
~/opt/emacs that contains all my loved emacs extensions or, ruby 2.6
with some libs
guix package -i ruby@2.6.x ruby-xml ruby-sinatra -p ~/opt/ruby2.6
and
guix pull -p ~/opt/guix-latest
is another favourite now.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-14 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-10 23:06 Named environments Ryan Prior
2021-09-11 8:59 ` Domagoj Stolfa
2021-09-12 19:33 ` Sarah Morgensen
2021-09-13 8:08 ` zimoun
2021-10-06 13:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-13 15:48 ` pinoaffe
2021-09-14 2:32 ` Ryan Prior
2021-09-14 6:27 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-09-14 9:58 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2021-09-14 6:30 ` zimoun
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