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

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "Thompson\, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
Cc: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>, 38529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:16:26 +0100

Hello!

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu> skribis:

> I have long thought that --ad-hoc should be implied, as that is the
> mode I use 99% of the time, but I disagree that --pure should be the
> default.

I very much agree with that.  I don’t think ‘--pure’ should be the
default, because there are valid use cases for that.

As for ‘--ad-hoc’: making it the default is technically easy.  The
difficulty is to come up with a nice transition/deprecation mechanism so
that we don’t break everyone’s script overnight.

Ideas on how to achieve it are welcome!

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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