Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Note that `guix shell` should contain base language packages.

From: Skyler <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 22:57:08 +0000

Is there a normal timeline for patch review or is it mor of an "as resources allow" type of deal?

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, March 30th, 2023 at 1:42 PM, Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]> wrote:

> * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix shell): Explain that python must be included in
> the invocation even if it is already available in the external environment.
> 
> Suggested-by: Skyler [email-masked]
> 
> ---
> doc/guix.texi | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index c49e51b72e..879a526b77 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Domagoj Stolfa@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Hui Lu@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2021 pukkamustard@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Alice Brenon@*
> -Copyright @copyright{} 2021, 2022 Josselin Poiret@*
> +Copyright @copyright{} 2021, 2022, 2023 Josselin Poiret@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2021 muradm@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2021, 2022 Andrew Tropin@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Sarah Morgensen@*
> @@ -5959,6 +5959,14 @@ building or downloading any missing package, and runs the
> guix shell python python-numpy -- python3
> @end example
> 
> +Note that it is necessary to include the main @code{python} package in
> +this command even if it is already installed into your environment. This
> +is so that the shell environment knows to set @env{PYTHONPATH} and other
> +related variables. The shell environment cannot check the previously
> +installed environment, because then it would be non-deterministic. This
> +is true for most libraries: their corresponding language package should
> +be included in the shell invocation.
> +
> @quotation Note
> @cindex shebang, for @command{guix shell}
> @command{guix shell} can be also be used as a script interpreter, also
> 
> base-commit: be5e280e5fe26f93bd5a6e3f76e4502edb913a94
> --
> 2.39.2