Re: guix-shell?

[David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> I hope we can make use of Nix's {pip,bower,node,...}2nix scripts and
>> make Guix versions.  But first, we need to write guix-shell!
>
> I think nix-shell is mostly equivalent to:
>
>   eval `guix package --search-paths`
>
> Although maybe it would be better to have a command that does it without
> actually having to create a profile.
>

Hmm, I thought that this was a perfect use-case for profiles.  I haven't
read the source to nix-shell yet, but I inferred that it essentially did
the following:

1) Create profile in project directory
2) Install dependencies
3) Run the desired shell
4) Prepend the new profile's /bin to $PATH
5) Set search path env vars

How would we do it without creating a profile?

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