Subject: Re: [bug#34486] [PATCH 0/1] Add '--inherit' to 'guix environment'

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:24:36 +0100

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>>> So, what about adding ‘--preserve’ (or ‘--keep’? I slightly prefer
>>>> “preserve”) and keeping ‘--inherit’ as a deprecated alias?
>>>
>>> Sounds good to me, though in my opinion “--inherit” hasn’t been around
>>> long enough to warrant deprecation.
>>
>> Well, it’s safer and doesn’t cost much to deprecate it properly.
>
> True.
>
>>>> We could perhaps add ‘-E’ as well, reclaiming the long-deprecated
>>>> ‘--exec’, WDYT?
>>>
>>> --preserve/-E would be equivalent?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Neat.  Let’s do it! :)

Done in dca58219584c1163a9fbf88fccea885eb53bf2af, thanks!

Ludo’.