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Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: EuAndreh <eu <at> euandre.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>, GNU Guix maintainers <guix-maintainers <at> gnu.org>, 38529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:34:39 +0100

Hi,

EuAndreh <eu <at> euandre.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Yes, I think it is clear that we’d have to do this using all the tools
>> at our disposal, including time.
>>
>> Konrad’s objection remains though: existing documents (papers, blog
>> posts, MOOCs, etc.) that mention ‘guix environment’ would all of a
>> sudden become wrong if we were to change the defaults of ‘guix
>> environment’.  Even if we introduce a variable to restore the old
>> behavior.
>>
>> Perhaps that’s unavoidable in the long run, but perhaps this is not the
>> right time for this.
>
> Wouldn't having a new name for the new behaviour avoid breakage in this
> situation?

Yes, that’s correct (that’s also one of the suggestions Konrad made).

We could take that route.  What would we call it, though?  I don’t like
“guix shell” because it doesn’t quite reflect what the command is
about.  No good idea, though.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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