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Add the current directory as GUILE_LOAD_PATH by default

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de>
Cc: 15286-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15286: Add the current directory as GUILE_LOAD_PATH by default
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:13:17 +0200

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de> skribis:

> Am Freitag, 6. September 2013, 14:10:27 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de> skribis:
>> 
>> > Currently to install a local package definition, I have to adjust the GUILE_LOAD_PATH by hand:
>> >
>> >       GUILE_LOAD_PATH=. guix package -e '(@ (mercurial) hg)'
>> >
>> > This could be much clearer if the $pwd were in the load path automatically.
>> 
>> As usual, it is a bad idea to include ‘.’ in the search path, because it
>> makes it easy to unwillingly execute untrusted code.
>
> I now learned, that with guile I can use 
>
>     guile -L .
>
> which actually does what I need.
>
> Providing this in guix would be consistent with guile and it would make it really easy to select overlays.

If this is a ‘-L’ option, then I’d say no.  After all, Guix is just
another Guile library, and as such it must not fiddle with the search
path.

Ludo’.

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