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

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Message #215 received at 50960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>
Cc: 50960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#50960: [PATCH 00/10] Add 'guix shell' to subsume 'guix
 environment'
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:32:12 +0200

Hi,

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net> skribis:

>> To me it’s the same as ‘guix environment’, but with a slightly different
>> command-line interface; ‘guix environment’ was already serves these two
>> use cases.
>
> Indeed, but the new proposal goes much further with supporting
> interactive convenience, in particular via the controversial reading of
> guix.scm and/or manifest.scm. That's a convenience I'd like to have
> interactively, but not something I expect from an infrastructure tool
> that ends up being used in lengthy shell script. For the latter, the
> "Zen of Python wisdom" of "explicit is better than implicit" matters a
> lot. On the command line, it makes life harder, in particular for bad
> typists such as myself.

Agreed.  The automatic reading of guix.scm/manifest.scm, if we keep it,
should only happen in interactive use; I’ll double-check and make sure
this is the case.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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