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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 17:43:04 -0500
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 04:42:07PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> --pure seems to be the more sensible behaviour.  "Impure" environments
> can have unexpected behaviours, so it makes sense to only allow them
> when the user explicitly asks for it.

I don't have an opinion about this in general except that I think that
--ad-hoc should continue to work the way it does now, without --pure
being implied.