diff --git a/gnu/packages/package-management.scm b/gnu/packages/package-management.scm
index 70a6a49..8a77c40 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/package-management.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/package-management.scm
@@ -255,6 +255,18 @@ the Nix package manager.")
 
 (define-public guix guix-devel)
 
+(define-public guix-for-environment
+  ;; We provide this pseudo-package just to allow people to run:
+  ;;   guix environment guix-devel
+  ;; to reliably get the development environment for Guix (using 'guix' for
+  ;; this purpose does not work when 'guix' points to the built-from-tarball
+  ;; package rather than to the built-from-checkout package.)
+  (package
+    (inherit guix-devel)
+    (name "guix-devel")
+    (source #f)                                   ;not meant to be built
+    (supported-systems '())))
+
 (define (source-file? file stat)
   "Return true if FILE is likely a source file, false if it is a typical
 generated file."