guix shell --root
Let's benchmark and test these options to see if it helps the speed/times with building a new container.
-r, --root=FILE make FILE a symlink to the result, and register it as a garbage collector root
01/27/2022 | 06:47:42 PM lfam: jgart: I would use the --root argument of `guix shell` to make sure the results aren't garbage collected 01/27/2022 | 06:47:51 PM jgart: ah ok cool 01/27/2022 | 06:47:55 PM lfam: You might also run the guix-daemon with the various --keep-[...] options 01/27/2022 | 06:48:17 PM lfam: I mean the --gc-keep-[...] options