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To: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> 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

Just to be clear, that=E2=80=99s something that can be done currently with:

  guix package -p foo -i one two three
  eval `guix package -p $PWD/foo --search-paths`
  export PATH=3D"$PWD/foo/bin"

(We could easily get rid of the last step.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.