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To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
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Hi Pjotr,

> It would be interesting to see how others solve this problem.
> Including Nix and Conda.

Conda uses the same approach as Python's virtualenv: create a seperate
Python installation made up mainly of linke to files shared with other
such installations.

We could probably do something similar in Guix as well, assuming we can
make the Python executable figure out from which environment it was
started.

Konrad