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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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
Cc: 38529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mail <at> ambrevar.xyz, dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu
Subject: bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 10:03:35 +0100

Hi!

Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org> skribis:

> It suddenly struck me today that there is an easy way to change the
> default behavior while supporting the legacy behavior.
>
> How about we have a new command, "guix env", what is --ad-hoc by
> default?  Then "guix environment" sticks around as legacy for supporting
> the old interface.  Therefore, "guix env" is doubly short and to the
> point.  :)

Last time we discussed it we reached (I think!) a consensus that the new
command would be called ‘guix shell’ and be ‘--ad-hoc’ by default.

I almost started working on it, and then got stuck wondering whether
‘--inputs-of’ should be implemented as a package transformation or not.

Ludo’.
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