bug#52347: Shell: error when -m manifest is removed

[Cayetano Santos]

> mar. 07 déc. 2021 at 11:35, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> ...

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 11:25, Cayetano Santos
> <cayetano.santos@inventati.org> wrote:
>
> > Is it expected to fail when I remove the ’-m manifest’ flag and 
> > I
> > just run ’guix shell -C -- python3’ ?
>
> The command "guix shell -C -- python3" fails.  It cannot work, 
> because
> the environment (new shell) is empty.  You need to provide what 
> this
> shell has to contain, via command line package list or via 
> manifest.

To my understanding, in this blog entry

 https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/from-guix-environment-to-guix-shell/

they claim that "guix shell automatically loads guix.scm or 
manifest.scm, from the current directory"

No need to "-m manifest.scm", then.

C.