[Nix-dev] nix-shell and persistent environment

[Philipp Steinpaß]

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On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:30:27AM -0300, Ruben Astudillo wrote:
> hi
> 
> nix-shell is great, but when I update the nixpkgs or nix-collect-garbage
> I lose the cache of those packages. I've thinking on do a special profile
> that I could switch to per shell instance with nix-{shell,env}, but I
> also found references to a deprecated buildEnv function for this. What is
> the common alternative for this?
> 
The old wiki has a guide for that.
https://nixos.org/wiki/Development_Environments#Making_a_Persistent_nix-shell_Environment

Philipp
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