Re: [Nix-dev] nix-shell (was: Python 3 as default)

2017-02-14 Thread zimbatm
Point 4 is really the biggest problem for me because the user loses control. Especially when combined with direnv the user might be surprised with a big update by just changing directory. I think that this can be solved using a profile. The user would load the profile with nix-shell and use

[Nix-dev] nix-shell (was: Python 3 as default)

2017-02-14 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Profpatsch, >> I hardly ever use nix-shell and I don't want to, to be honest. > > Why is that? 1. I don't need it. Adding those Haskell/Python/LaTeX/R modules that I need into my global user environment works just fine. I suppose there might be occasions where versions conflict in a