Re: Combining Guix, direnv and Emacs for environment customisation

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi!

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Have you tried creating extra persistent profiles? This
would seem to suite your use case better (although a 'save-env' feature
for environments would be neat!).

The doc is sparsed about the use of profiles, but Ricardo published some
useful write-up here: https://elephly.net/posts/latest.html where you'll
find some commands making use of it.

HTH,

Maxim