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bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?
From: |
Christopher Lemmer Webber |
Subject: |
bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'? |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 11:05:01 -0500 |
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mu4e 1.4.13; emacs 27.1 |
Taylan Kammer writes:
> On 10.12.2019 18:16, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello!
>> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>>
>>> I have long thought that --ad-hoc should be implied, as that is the
>>> mode I use 99% of the time, but I disagree that --pure should be the
>>> default.
>> I very much agree with that. I don’t think ‘--pure’ should be the
>> default, because there are valid use cases for that.
>> As for ‘--ad-hoc’: making it the default is technically easy. The
>> difficulty is to come up with a nice transition/deprecation mechanism so
>> that we don’t break everyone’s script overnight.
>> Ideas on how to achieve it are welcome!
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>>
>
> I suppose the straightforward way of doing such a transition would be:
>
> - In the next release, add --inputs-of and make the use of 'guix
> environment' with neither switch emit a warning saying you should
> use the new switch to explicitly enable it because the default will
> change.
>
> - Later, change the default behavior and deprecate --ad-hoc as it
> becomes a no-op.
>
> - (Optional) In some future release, remove --ad-hoc.
>
>
> Taylan
That sounds good to me.
And could we make "env" a shortcut for "environment" anyway? My fingers
are tired. ;)