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[PATCH 00/10] Add 'guix shell' to subsume 'guix environment'

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 50960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#50960] [PATCH 00/10] Add 'guix shell' to subsume 'guix environment'
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 09:44:34 +0200

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> 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’.

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