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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: lgcoelho@disroot.org
Cc: 73294@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73294: "guix shell -- anything" does not look for manifests
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:04:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xqc4zvs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86b8b6bd0f2a04c6febb78b5c91f7676@disroot.org> (lgcoelho@disroot.org's message of "Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:40:23 +0200")

Hi,

lgcoelho@disroot.org skribis:

> Currently, if you have an authorized manifest available and want to run 
> some command (for example htop) provided by the manifest, you need to
>
>
> $ guix shell
> $ htop
>
> as supplying a command for guix shell makes it to not look for 
> manifests, and instead simply create a empty environment.
>
>
> $ guix shell -- htop
> guix shell: warning: no packages specified; creating an empty 
> environment
> guix shell: error: htop: command not found
>
> Which doesn't seems a desirable behavior to me. Could we fix it?

This is the documented behavior: ‘manifest.scm’ and ‘guix.scm’ are read
only for interactive use, meaning without ‘--’:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-shell.html

The rationale for it is that non-interactive uses of ‘guix shell’ would
always be self-contained.

This was arguably a very conservative choice but I’m not sure we can
change it at this stage.  Thoughts?

Ludo’.




      reply	other threads:[~2024-09-30 21:05 UTC|newest]

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2024-09-16 12:40 bug#73294: "guix shell -- anything" does not look for manifests lgcoelho--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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