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[PATCH] environment: Add --manifest option.

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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
To: 30480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#30480] [PATCH] environment: Add --manifest option.
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:12:58 -0500

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In my lurkings I've seen people wondering why `guix environment`
doesn't work with manifests. The answer is simply: I never thought to
add it. This patch fixes that. The implementation is kind of
interesting and might seem a little silly to people that know how
manifests work.  In order to support manifests with minimal code and
make --manifest compose with other options I simply decompile the
manifest back into a list of package/output tuples.  That means in the
case of `guix environment --manifest=foo.scm` the manifest is created,
decompiled, and a new manifest created from that.  Seems redundant!
The advantage is that since --manifest composes with all the other
ways to specify packages we can do absolutely bonkers things like
`guix environment guile --ad-hoc ruby --manifest=foo.scm
--manifest=bar.scm --load=frob.scm --expression='(@ (gnu packages
python) python)'`.  More realistically you'd use it to throw in an
extra package or two with --ad-hoc.

Anyway, hope y'all like it.

- Dave

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