Re: Adding a subcommand "load-profile"

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> skribis:

>> I’m interested in your feedback then.
>>
>> To me, there are already several ways to do that, notably:
>>
>>   1. guix environment (but it’s slower)
>>
>>   2. sh
>>      . /my/profile/etc/profile.sh
>>      exit
>>
>>   3. sh
>>      eval `guix package -p /my/profile --search-paths`
>>      exit
>>
>> Options #2 and #3 are more verbose, and less obvious to someone not
>> familiar with the shell.
>
> The only way i understand how to trivially get a precise environment is
> "guix environment --pure --ad-hoc package1, package2, ... packageN"
>
> Don't options #2 and #3 also include everything from the default profile
> and system profile?

Option #2 yes, option #3 no: there’s ‘--search-paths=exact’ (the
default), ‘--search-paths=prefix’, and ‘--search-paths=suffix’.

Ludo’.