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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>, 57467@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57467: 'guix shell' does not honor default behavior when given a specific command to run
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 09:18:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmg90y3u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a8e6b74-f936-2c15-390c-37e23a6365d8@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Mon, 5 Sep 2022 21:53:20 +0200")

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:

> On 05-09-2022 15:06, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The main difficulty here is that, should we eventually decide to change
>> behaviors, we’ll have to devise a migration timeline etc.  (As an
>> example, we chose to keep ‘guix environment’ until at least May 2023;
>> all this must take time if we want to avoid breaking user workflows.)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> "guix shell" is for making packages available in the
> environment. Currently, "guix shell -- foobar" does not make any
> packages available -- it's effectively a no-op except for setting
> GUIX_ENVIRONMENT.

True, though you could always have scripts that read:

  guix shell $packages -- whatever

and that will suddenly behave differently if $packages expands to an
empty string.  Tricky!

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-06  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-28 21:58 bug#57467: 'guix shell' does not honor default behavior when given a specific command to run Thompson, David
2022-08-29  1:28 ` Thompson, David
2022-08-29 10:29   ` Maxime Devos
2022-08-29 12:48     ` bug#57467: [EXT] " Thompson, David
2022-08-30 13:24       ` Maxime Devos
2022-08-30 13:39         ` bug#57467: [EXT] " Thompson, David
2022-08-30 14:33           ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-30 16:22             ` bug#57467: [EXT] " Thompson, David
2022-08-30 19:26 ` bug#57467: [EXT] " Thompson, David
2022-09-05 13:06   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-09-05 17:23     ` Thompson, David
2022-09-05 19:53     ` Maxime Devos
2022-09-06  7:18       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-09-06 11:03         ` Maxime Devos
2022-09-06 11:33 ` Thompson, David

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