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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
Cc: 15286-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15286: Add the current directory as GUILE_LOAD_PATH by default
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:13:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2obvbxe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1983838.hHcTjoUhmn@fluss> (Arne Babenhauserheide's message of "Sat, 14 Sep 2013 01:05:42 +0200")

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> skribis:

> Am Freitag, 6. September 2013, 14:10:27 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> skribis:
>> 
>> > Currently to install a local package definition, I have to adjust the GUILE_LOAD_PATH by hand:
>> >
>> >       GUILE_LOAD_PATH=. guix package -e '(@ (mercurial) hg)'
>> >
>> > This could be much clearer if the $pwd were in the load path automatically.
>> 
>> As usual, it is a bad idea to include ‘.’ in the search path, because it
>> makes it easy to unwillingly execute untrusted code.
>
> I now learned, that with guile I can use 
>
>     guile -L .
>
> which actually does what I need.
>
> Providing this in guix would be consistent with guile and it would make it really easy to select overlays.

If this is a ‘-L’ option, then I’d say no.  After all, Guix is just
another Guile library, and as such it must not fiddle with the search
path.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-14 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-06  9:29 bug#15286: Add the current directory as GUILE_LOAD_PATH by default Arne Babenhauserheide
2013-09-06 12:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-13 23:05   ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2013-09-14 12:13     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-09-15 11:24       ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2013-09-15 17:46         ` Mark H Weaver

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