In the "Quick Start", we used nix-shell to open a subshell with a suitable
environment. We will always have to open a subshell before running commands
like mysql or composer. I like this because it's easy to switch between
different configurations, however... if you always use one configuration, then this
could feel inconvenient.
You can bring the full locolamp stack into your default shell (so that
nix and nix-shell aren't needed on a day-to-day basis):
$ git clone https://github.com/totten/locolamp ~/src/locolamp
$ nix-env -i -f ~/src/locolamp/
And optionally load the environment variables from loco.yml at startup
by adding this to the shell initialization script (~/.profile or
~/.bashrc):
eval $( loco env --cwd ~/src/locolamp/ --export )Note: Upgrades won't be automatic; so you may want to periodically reinstall the profile.