Re: developing software with guix environment

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Adonay Felipe Nogueira <address@hidden> skribis:

> About "preventing environment from being updated by ‘guix pull’ in the
> meantime", do you mean that:
>
> 1. Even if I specify the `--root [Some file path.]` option to `guix
>    environment`.
>
> 2. Exit/leave the environmente due to other stuff.
>
> 3. Some days go by, I do `guix pull` (and get updates).
>
> 4. Then decide to go back to my environment...
>
> Will `guix environment` try to apply the current set of recipes
> available from the last `guix pull` into the environment?

Yes.

> Morever, in this last `guix environment`, will it try to download
> things?

It will try to build or download whatever is missing (perhaps nothing,
perhaps many things.)

I hope this clarifies things!

Ludo’.