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

From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> igalia.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel <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: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:49:37 +0100

On Fri 20 Dec 2019 22:08, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>  - I propose the name "guix shell"
>
> This is not a bad idea, especially considering that “guix environment”
> was meant to get shebang support, so that you could use it as the
> interpreter in a script that handles the environment configuration.
>
> It is also shorter.

I like this idea.  It would also allow us to deprecate "guix
environment" over a period of a year or so, and we can probably show an
equivalent "guix shell" invocation in the deprecation message.

Andy
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