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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Guix mentioned in Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:35:32 +0200
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Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:

> (4) Finally, is there a way to automatically inject the search paths in
> the shell? Rather than printing them, and people have to copy-paste,
> why not create a new shell with paths set? Or is that already
> available?

At this institute I recommend users install software into one profile
per project.  To =E2=80=9Center=E2=80=9D a profile users do this:

    bash
    cd projects/world-peace
    source .guix-profile/etc/profile
    # variables are set now
    # do work here
    exit

They enter a subshell, then go to their project directory in which they
have a Guix profile (always named =E2=80=9C.guix-profile=E2=80=9D).  By s=
ourcing the
profile=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cetc/profile=E2=80=9D all environment variables=
 are set up.

When they are done they just exit the subshell, thereby restoring the
environment to its previous state.

~~ Ricardo