Subject: Re: bug#61099: guix shell '-E' option can be silently ignored

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:43:42 -0500

Hello,

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I just encountered a situation where -E is not correctly parsed/used and
> ignore silently.
>
> Reproducer:
>
> guix shell -CD igraph -E /gnu=/gnu strace
>
>
> The above doesn't work (there are far too few entries to /gnu/store, it
> isn't shared).
>
> This works:
>
> guix shell -CD igraph --expose=/gnu=/gnu strace

As reported by Ludovic on IRC, -E is not --expose, but --preserve.
There's no short option for --expose.

Closing!

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Thanks,
Maxim