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bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'? |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 10:03:35 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
> It suddenly struck me today that there is an easy way to change the
> default behavior while supporting the legacy behavior.
>
> How about we have a new command, "guix env", what is --ad-hoc by
> default? Then "guix environment" sticks around as legacy for supporting
> the old interface. Therefore, "guix env" is doubly short and to the
> point. :)
Last time we discussed it we reached (I think!) a consensus that the new
command would be called ‘guix shell’ and be ‘--ad-hoc’ by default.
I almost started working on it, and then got stuck wondering whether
‘--inputs-of’ should be implemented as a package transformation or not.
Ludo’.