Manifest Hooks?

Manifest Hooks?

[Steven Stallion]

All,

I've been looking into using manifests to help track some project
dependencies and had a question for the list. Is it possible to add a
shell hook similar to nix-shell when the packages specified by a
manifest have been installed? In this specific case, I have a Python
virtualenv I would like to activate when packages have finished
installing without requiring additional scripting.

Thanks in advance!
Steve

Re: Manifest Hooks?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> skribis:

> I've been looking into using manifests to help track some project
> dependencies and had a question for the list. Is it possible to add a
> shell hook similar to nix-shell when the packages specified by a
> manifest have been installed? In this specific case, I have a Python
> virtualenv I would like to activate when packages have finished
> installing without requiring additional scripting.

No, there’s no such thing.  I guess you could tweak ~/.bashrc to do that
based on $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT but it’s not very elegant.

Besides, I’d be interested in your thoughts as to whether/how ‘guix
environment’ could be improved to make virtualenv unnecessary.

Thanks,
Ludo’.