Re: Am I doing it all wrong?

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

jgart <jgart@dismail.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This is what I do to work on GNU Guix on a foreign distro:
>
> git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>
> cd guix
> guix shell -D guix --container -- ./bootstrap
> guix shell -D guix --container -- ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> guix shell -D guix --container -- make
> guix shell --container --network coreutils vis ripgrep rlwrap -D guix --share=/var/guix/
>
> Should I be doing anything differently in the above for setting up a dev environment for guix hacking?

Why do you keep exiting and entering the container for each command?
And: why use a container at all when “guix shell --pure” would be more
than enough?

I’d just start a new shell *once* and then run the commands inside of
the shell session.

-- 
Ricardo