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<jfred>Maybe unconventional, what do you all think about projects adding themselves to GC roots in direnv? Too messy if too many projects start doing it? https://gitlab.com/jfrederickson/guile-horton/-/commit/e473aa1ded9e3be35c0684902279e32fa66cd2d8
<jfred>I think I got bit by `guix gc` at some point while away from a network connection which led me to want to do this
<jfred>s/to GC roots/to Guix GC roots/
<dthompson>jfred: to answer your question from yesterday, I personally don't love the idea of a script automatically registering a gc root for guix shell. I understand the temptation but I don't like to have my shell environments registered as roots.
<dthompson>or if I did, I'd like it to be something explicit that I did
<jfred>fair enough
<dthompson>new blog post from wingo about one of the thornier issues he is working on for hoot: https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/05/scheme-modules-vs-whole-program-compilation-fight