Re: nix shellHook equivalent for guix environment?

[Xinglu Chen]

Hi!

On Tue, Mar 09 2021, Pierre-Antoine Bouttier wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Do you know if there is any equivalent to shellHook, available for the
> nix-shell command, for setting up a guix environment through a
> manifest.scm file?
>
> Or maybe another methodology with guix to have approximatively the
> same behavior? (i.e. in a file that can be put under version control,
> defining dependancies and also init commands to set up a guix
> environment)

I am not aware of a guix environment equivalent to shellHook, but I
suggest you checking out direnv[1].  It allows you to setup an
environment on a per-directory basis, everytime you enter a directory
the content of the `.envrc` file will be run in your shell.

There is also integration with Guix[2] so you could have an `.envrc`
file like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
use_guix <some-package> --ad-hoc git -L manifest.scm

echo "Environment created!"

[...]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

[1] https://direnv.net/
[2] https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/GNU-Guix

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Xinglu Chen