Hi Ricardo,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Do we need this at all or could “guix deploy” evaluate the machine
> declaration in an environment where the machine module is available?
> We do something like that for evaluating manifests – no module
> relating to manifest loading needs to be specified by users and yet
> “specifications->manifest” is available.
>
> Would it make sense to do something similar here instead of exporting
> (gnu machine) in (gnu)?

Thanks for that comment; I'd completely forgotten about not having to
import 'specifications->manifest'. I doubt the machine types will see
much use outside of deployment specifications, so something like that
would definitely make sense here. I'll add it in.

Regards,
Jakob