GNU bug report logs - #38529
Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 15:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #197 received at 38529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: GNU Guix maintainers <guix-maintainers <at> gnu.org>, 38529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment
 proposed deprecation mechanism
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:09:23 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Maybe “union”, “surround”, or… “profile”?

“profile” is a tempting choice, but it’s treacherous because we might be
blinded by the glow of the implementation of environments as volatile
profiles.  On the other hand: if we could also move some of the features
of the “package” sub-command under “profile” (e.g. those that relate to
the management of, well, profiles), that could be a winning move.

Tricky.

> (I’d reserve “guix spawn” or “guix run” for the tool that runs commands
> in a least-authority environment, as we’ve discussed in the past.)

Same.

--
Ricardo
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