Subject: [bug#50960] [PATCH 00/10] Add 'guix shell' to subsume 'guix environment'

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 09:44:34 +0200

Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Guix itself doesn't follow this convention: the guix source tree has an unrelated
> "guix.scm" file, that doesn't evaluate to a package.

Indeed, but that’s because Guix predates the convention.  :-)

> I'd expect that running "guix shell" within the guix source tree would
> be equivalent to "guix environment guix", but currently this doesn't
> seem to be the case.

Right, it would fail poorly in this particular case.

Ludo’.