Subject: Re: bug#56539: ‘guix shell -D… --export-manifest’ behaves inconsistently

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 17:39:45 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I observe the following weird behavior, where the first invocation
> wrongfully expands ‘-D gnutls’ into a list of package specs, whereas the
> other invocations (only slightly different) lead to calls to
> ‘package->development-manifest’ as expected:

This had to due with profile caching: cached profiles would be taken
into account, leading to the “expanded view” because the ‘-D’
information would be lost in that case.

Fixed in 30915a7419d48c6a5dcfdc3a1547268ac406a9ef.

Ludo’.