I recently reran into guix and it finally clicked with me, and I'm looking for a way to ease it into my workflow. I use conda a lot for Python virtual environments so I thought replacing it would be a good entry point.

So far I have this as a minimal manifest.scm:

```

(

specifications->manifest

'("python-numpy" "python" "python-pip")

)

```

And I invoke it with this:

guix environment --ad-hoc --manifest=manifest.scm --container

The first thing that I'm missing from conda is saved environments.

• Can I save this guix environment and then load it again without having to reinstall everything from the manifest file?

• How do I add all the normal bash commands (ls, pwd, etc.) into the environment?

• Why is there a single quote before listing the packages?

Thanks in advance.