From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Combining Guix, direnv and Emacs for environment customisation
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:09:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp5l2wqp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877exlvbzm.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> (Carlo Zancanaro's message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:52:13 +1000")
Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au> skribis:
> On Tue, Aug 29 2017, David wrote:
>> There is a feature missing in 'guix environment': saving the resulting
>> profile for easy access later. I often want to build an environment
>> once and not update it for awhile, but with the current state of 'guix
>> environment' it's not possible. This leads me to pulling my hair out
>> when I do an upgrade of Guix and have to rebuild all of my development
>> environments. What was supposed to be a quick hack turns into a Guix
>> maintenance session.
>
> I also got frustrated by this when trying to keep my own checkout of
> guix. Then I found out you can do this:
>
> guix environment guix --root=environment
>
> This puts a link to the environment under `environment` in the local
> directory. Then you can run `source environment/etc/profile; make` to
> rebuild guix. This also protects the environment from garbage
> collection, which was the actual problem I was trying to solve.
It surely helps, but I think it would be even better if ‘guix
environment’ would directly include a way to reload the environment in
its UI, like Dave was suggesting.
Maybe it’s just a matter of adding a --reload option that does what you
wrote above for you?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-30 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-27 10:56 bug#27097: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-direnv Christopher Baines
2017-05-27 11:31 ` Combining Guix, direnv and Emacs for environment customisation Christopher Baines
2017-05-30 15:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-30 15:03 ` bug#27097: " Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-01 13:17 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-03 13:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-03 13:59 ` bug#27097: " Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-03 21:08 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-04 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-04 21:15 ` bug#27097: " Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-05 22:37 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-07 10:35 ` Performance on NFS Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-07 13:06 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-09 13:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-12 8:45 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-12 8:45 ` [bug#27097] " Roel Janssen
2017-06-12 15:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-16 15:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-17 7:36 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-17 22:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-17 23:15 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-18 8:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-19 8:01 ` RPC performance Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-19 8:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-19 14:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-22 14:03 ` Andy Wingo
2017-06-22 16:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-23 9:09 ` Andy Wingo
2017-06-23 9:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-23 9:46 ` Andy Wingo
2017-06-26 11:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-26 14:19 ` Andy Wingo
2017-06-19 21:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-22 8:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-07 11:01 ` Combining Guix, direnv and Emacs for environment customisation Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-07 12:25 ` Performance on NFS Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-07 12:59 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-07 12:59 ` bug#27097: " Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-29 19:02 ` Combining Guix, direnv and Emacs for environment customisation Thompson, David
2017-08-29 22:30 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-08-30 5:52 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-08-30 10:09 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-08-30 10:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-28 20:09 ` bug#27097: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-direnv Ludovic Courtès
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