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Regression regarding guix shell and its "pure" flag?

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From: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
To: André A. Gomes <andremegafone <at> gmail.com>, 69487 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69487: Regression regarding guix shell and its "pure" flag?
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:46:23 +0100

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Hi André

André A. Gomes <andremegafone <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> Take a package that you have installed in the default profile, say
> "which".  Then notice that when issuing "guix shell --pure" followed by
> "which which" replies that the command can't be found.  On the other
> hand, when starting the environment via "guix shell", the command can be
> found.
>
> If my memory isn't tricking me, the "pure" flag used to behave
> differently.  It simply started the shell with a clean env, but it still
> exposed the packages from the default profile.  Am I missing something
> or is this a regression?

No, this is `--pure` working as expected, the other behavior you
describe would be considered a bug.  Maybe you used to have the default
profile loaded through .bashrc, even though this is discouraged exactly
for that reason?

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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