From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Soo Subject: Re: a first question about parallel environments Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:40:55 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51854) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j5BMJ-0005Ll-W0 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:41:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j5BMI-0004ro-N2 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:40:59 -0500 Received: from mail-ot1-x329.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::329]:45853) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j5BMI-0004rb-If for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:40:58 -0500 Received: by mail-ot1-x329.google.com with SMTP id 59so2506989otp.12 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:40:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Ben Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hi again, Seems my message was cut off.=20 To the point: yes it is quite possible. For the short version and to get sta= rted check out the docs for the `guix environment` command. You will probabl= y get what you want there. Also it does help to understand the idea of a functional package manager. Yo= u can read eelco dolstra=E2=80=99s phd thesis on the topic for the in depth v= ersion. There may be other material in the guix documentation as well. Welcome again, John=