Idea: when in a guix environment, have guix install packages by default to that environment

Idea: when in a guix environment, have guix install packages by default to that environment

[pkill9]

darth-cheney asked in IRC if from inside a guix environment you would
install the packages instead of pip/node, and maybe having guix install
packages to current guix environment would be a good idea.

Possible issue would be how to change the current guix environment to
the new profile, without creating a nest of environments for every
`guix install` or `guix package -i`.

Re: Idea: when in a guix environment, have guix install packages by default to that environment

[raingloom]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:09:26 +0100
pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> wrote:

> darth-cheney asked in IRC if from inside a guix environment you would
> install the packages instead of pip/node, and maybe having guix
> install packages to current guix environment would be a good idea.
> 
> Possible issue would be how to change the current guix environment to
> the new profile, without creating a nest of environments for every
> `guix install` or `guix package -i`.
> 

You don't have to source the environment again if it was
source with GUIX_PROFILE defined.
I have some notes about this on my Gemini memex that go into more
detail:
gemini://blobpat.space/memex/guix.gem

http proxy in case you don't have a Gemini client at hand:
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/blobpat.space/memex/guix.gem


You can also add things to your current environment with 
source <(guix environment --search-paths bleep-bloop --ad-hoc whatever)

Re: Idea: when in a guix environment, have guix install packages by default to that environment

[Arun Isaac]

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Hi,

This could be trouble. Sometimes, when I'm hacking on Guix in an
environment created using `guix environment guix`, I install a package
to my main user profile using `./pre-inst-env guix install ...`. The
behaviour you suggest would interfere with this.

Regards,
Arun

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