On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 22:33:53 CEST Leo Famulari wrote: > I recommend not using a different local state directory. There should > not be any negative (or even observable) effects of your experimental > artifacts being in /gnu/store. I haven't tried managing multiple stores > but I assume you'd need to run a separate daemon for each, configured > for the correct directories.
OK, I'll try that. My main concern was with packages I actually want to run. For example, last time I wanted to update the Neovim version, so I changed the definition and installed Neovim in order to try it out a bit. But doing so replaced my previous Neovim installation. I know the old one was still in the store, but if I had borked the update I would have had the problem that my text editor, which is what I use to edit Guile scripts, was messed up. It's not a major problem, but still an annoyance. Perhaps instead of `install` I should have done `environment --ad-hoc`.