Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 05.11.19 um 10:03 schrieb Konrad Hinsen:

> > And adding another dimension: spawning a sub-shell (environment) or not
> > (profile).
> >       
> How is this different from the ephemeral vs. persistent dimension?
> Creating an ephemeral package set makes sense only if you spwan a
> process in it (not necessarily a shell).
>

You are right, these are (almost?) the same.

Ephemeral could also be imagined without spawning a some process, but also without registering a "root". But this would not work, since as soon as one runs "guix gc" while such an environment is active, the environment would be destroyed.
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