From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil Subject: Re: How do I install packages from a file without removing currently installed packages? Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 16:29:07 -0500 Message-ID: <16aa3a65410.116c4855926630.2449205401465605464@zoho.com> References: <16aa278da65.c6dd197c22998.5984578131160668235@zoho.com> <20190510204917.dhj3i7sop5rjnopz@cf0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPDJr-0006MW-DF for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 17:44:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPDJp-0004xA-TJ for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 17:44:43 -0400 Received: from sender4-pp-o95.zoho.com ([136.143.188.95]:25528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPDJp-0004wu-Je for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 17:44:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20190510204917.dhj3i7sop5rjnopz@cf0> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: ison Cc: help-guix ---- On Fri, 10 May 2019 15:49:17 -0500 ison wrote ---- > This may not be exactly what you were looking for, but I think "guix environment" might behave sort of like that. It can also accept a manifest file, of course the environment will only be temporary but, if I'm not mistaken, it should combine with your current environment. > Yeah, I tried "guix environment -m PACKAGE..." before, but it is not quite what I'm looking for. I was hoping to find some option with "guix package" for non-programming projects that don't really need environments. Thanks, ison :)