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> But I think the use case you describe just doesn't resonate with a lot of people.

Yeah I suppose "flat is better than nested" is right there in the zen.

I guess I'm just an oddball. The idea of exiting all the way up to the root and finding nothing installed there except for the ability to descend into one or more specialized transient environments feels so... clean to me.



The other thing is, if you don't at least set $PS1 it gets hard to remember which level you're at.


You can configure direnv to en/disable envs based on dir enty/exit, so as long as your shell prompt shows your cwd you also know which env you're in. Less overall to think about if you bind the two states together.




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