From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
Cc: mail@ambrevar.xyz, 38529@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 11:05:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg9p6rbm.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4419f87c-c3ee-84c8-0a35-366b5978b653@gmail.com>
Taylan Kammer writes:
> On 10.12.2019 18:16, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello!
>> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>>
>>> I have long thought that --ad-hoc should be implied, as that is the
>>> mode I use 99% of the time, but I disagree that --pure should be the
>>> default.
>> I very much agree with that. I don’t think ‘--pure’ should be the
>> default, because there are valid use cases for that.
>> As for ‘--ad-hoc’: making it the default is technically easy. The
>> difficulty is to come up with a nice transition/deprecation mechanism so
>> that we don’t break everyone’s script overnight.
>> Ideas on how to achieve it are welcome!
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>>
>
> I suppose the straightforward way of doing such a transition would be:
>
> - In the next release, add --inputs-of and make the use of 'guix
> environment' with neither switch emit a warning saying you should
> use the new switch to explicitly enable it because the default will
> change.
>
> - Later, change the default behavior and deprecate --ad-hoc as it
> becomes a no-op.
>
> - (Optional) In some future release, remove --ad-hoc.
>
>
> Taylan
That sounds good to me.
And could we make "env" a shortcut for "environment" anyway? My fingers
are tired. ;)
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-08 15:42 bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'? Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-08 21:03 ` zimoun
2019-12-09 18:46 ` Thompson, David
2019-12-09 20:17 ` Brett Gilio
2019-12-10 17:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-30 17:27 ` raingloom
2020-11-03 17:38 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-11-03 18:35 ` zimoun
2020-11-06 9:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-04 9:43 ` Taylan Kammer
2020-11-04 16:05 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber [this message]
2019-12-12 11:23 ` bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism Gábor Boskovits
[not found] ` <CAE4v=phY+7CTKMf8Y3a9p4okfqtMGOWu9kd2Nu6oCJW8OsK3Lw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-12 16:47 ` zimoun
[not found] ` <CAJ3okZ3+-yAfRpYDHz-jYONguOPWjff0iWZ_7NPEz6x5mbOO1w@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-12 20:54 ` Gábor Boskovits
[not found] ` <CAE4v=piMnBhHWpbB60qMRnnDNwqkuddfNv7cEihr9+5-52k2OA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-13 12:02 ` zimoun
2019-12-13 16:27 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-12-13 16:32 ` zimoun
2019-12-13 16:41 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-12-16 22:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <87k16vdise.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-12-17 6:49 ` Konrad Hinsen
[not found] ` <e992ac46-37b9-ba12-83cc-6694427acd31@fastmail.net>
2019-12-17 9:14 ` Gábor Boskovits
[not found] ` <CAE4v=pjc5pWiaaB17tJnpO=O0=M5xrEWhyvWMLRaiLy5V19Y5Q@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-17 13:33 ` Kyle Meyer
[not found] ` <87pngncc0n.fsf@kyleam.com>
2019-12-17 14:22 ` Brett Gilio
2019-12-17 22:30 ` Bengt Richter
[not found] ` <20191217223048.GA3741@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain>
2019-12-17 23:21 ` Bengt Richter
2019-12-17 17:07 ` zimoun
[not found] ` <CAJ3okZ0Fw=02cDwdn5GuiDCyUNOUY=YaGyrFyHE5qWsOQTLASQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-18 9:43 ` Konrad Hinsen
[not found] ` <m1pngmrmst.fsf@khs-macbook.home>
2019-12-18 13:09 ` zimoun
2019-12-18 20:55 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-12-19 11:30 ` zimoun
2019-12-19 21:39 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-12-19 22:40 ` zimoun
2019-12-20 1:37 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-12-20 11:40 ` zimoun
2019-12-20 21:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-21 8:40 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-12-21 16:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-30 9:44 ` EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-12-30 10:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-30 12:03 ` zimoun
2019-12-30 15:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-30 17:55 ` zimoun
2019-12-30 21:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-30 21:32 ` zimoun
2019-12-31 18:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-31 19:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-01 19:23 ` zimoun
2019-12-20 23:02 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-12-21 0:04 ` zimoun
[not found] ` <CAJ3okZ3zSS0Rbnu5eLhpYHPvSY1emaj=-estQcjRwiJ3=4RMMA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-20 11:24 ` Konrad Hinsen
[not found] ` <m1fthfz1db.fsf@ordinateur-de-catherine--konrad.home>
2019-12-20 12:03 ` zimoun
2019-12-20 21:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-23 9:28 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-01-02 9:49 ` Andy Wingo
2019-12-20 21:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
[not found] ` <87v9qapuq6.fsf@elephly.net>
2019-12-21 15:18 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-12-19 16:31 ` bug#38529: Deprecating ‘guix environment’? Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <87k16snuoz.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
2019-12-19 22:48 ` zimoun
2019-12-20 11:17 ` Konrad Hinsen
[not found] ` <m1immbz1ny.fsf@ordinateur-de-catherine--konrad.home>
2019-12-20 13:21 ` zimoun
2019-12-08 22:43 ` bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'? Leo Famulari
2019-12-09 5:23 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-08-19 14:28 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-12-09 17:37 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-12-12 19:33 ` zimoun
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