Subject: bug#61343: [PATCH] scripts: repl: Load (gnu packages) to set up %load-path.

From: 宋文武 <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:09:53 +0800

Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]> writes:

> * guix/scripts/repl.scm: Add (gnu packages) to the used modules so that channel
> Scheme files are available straight away.
> ---
> Hi both of you,
>
> I don't think there's a reason for that, other than no one realizing before.
> Here's a simple fix, freshly tested.
>
>  guix/scripts/repl.scm | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/guix/scripts/repl.scm b/guix/scripts/repl.scm
> index 787c63d48e..407f5b2b38 100644
> --- a/guix/scripts/repl.scm
> +++ b/guix/scripts/repl.scm
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ (define-module (guix scripts repl)
>    #:use-module (guix ui)
>    #:use-module (guix scripts)
>    #:use-module (guix repl)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages) ;; To extend %load-path with channels
It's not clear to me why load (gnu packages) will/should extend
%load-path, a suprise side effect!