[Nix-dev] nix-shell, user-environments and persistent environments - confusion!

[Domen Kožar]

This is all about Nix GC roots and .drv files. Read how they work and how
to manipulate them and you'll be able to understand also nix-shell.



On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just want to set a ping on this, maybe someone can help me here.
>
> On 20-06-2016 19:59:19, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > maybe someone can clear things up for me:
> >
> > I want persistent development environments[0] which is do-able, but
> > nowhere is stated how to upgrade and even more important: remove these
> > environments.
> >
> > Another thing is, that sometimes it could be a nice idea to create an
> > environment and install it in the local user environment - how does
> > one do that? So that I have to type something like `enter-foo-env` and
> > it spins up a nix-shell environment, basically a persistent nix-shell
> > which is installed in my environment (not system-wide).
> >
> > Maybe I'm just too stupid to find the appropriate docs... feel free to
> > point me into the right direction or throw some links in my face. :-)
> >
> > [0]:
> https://nixos.org/wiki/Development_Environments#Making_a_Persistent_nix-shell_Environment
> >
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
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