issues: binderlite: test --root=FILE to register garbage collector roots

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+ # 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
+```