Re: guix-shell?

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:

> Hmm, I thought that this was a perfect use-case for profiles.  I haven't
> read the source to nix-shell yet, but I inferred that it essentially did
> the following:
>
> 1) Create profile in project directory
> 2) Install dependencies
> 3) Run the desired shell
> 4) Prepend the new profile's /bin to $PATH
> 5) Set search path env vars

Just to be clear, that’s something that can be done currently with:

  guix package -p foo -i one two three
  eval `guix package -p $PWD/foo --search-paths`
  export PATH="$PWD/foo/bin"

(We could easily get rid of the last step.)

Ludo’.