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From: Ricardo Grant <rgrant@posteo.net>
Subject: Installing and Maintaining Packages on a Drive
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I would like to be able to install software to a drive that I can mount 
and simply add the directory to my path to use the packages. In the 
event that I need to update them I would like to be able to use the 
stand-alone guix to manipulate the packages, can guix solve my problem?