I also think that Nix/Guix are the way forward... Guix really needs an installer/Linux package, though Just yesterday I added a few tasks to the ansible playbo

I also think that Nix/Guix are the way forward... Guix really needs an installer/Linux package, though Just yesterday I added a few tasks to the ansible playbook for my workstation to automate its installation: https://github.com/berdario/dotfiles/commit/4e92cdb00dbe135ffce46187efb78f4a201521c3 https://github.com/berdario/dotfiles/commit/4e92cdb00dbe135f... Small disclaimer: I'm also the author of Pew ( https://github.com/berdario/pew https://github.com/berdario/pew ), an alternative to virtualenvwrapper... and I'm working on a small program to try to automate further what pypi2nix/guix-import do to automatically package Python stuff for Nix/Guix... Until that'll be really easy, I think that whipping up a new pew virtualenv to try something out quickly is still the easiest thing (especially for people not used to Nix... I know: otherwise you can also use mutable virtualenvs on top of Nix)