Hi Maxime,

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 6:29 AM Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:

> On 29-08-2022 03:28, Thompson, David wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> I decided to just implement the fix and see what people think of it.
> Simply removing a check for non-interactive invocation solves the issue and
> now 'guix shell' and 'guix shell -- make' act exactly the same except for
> which command they run.  Patch attached.
>
> The interactive check is a feature, not a bug:
>
Could you please explain why it's a feature? I've provided an example that
shows how it is confusing and unexpected.

> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50960#69:
> [...]
> Agreed. The automatic reading of guix.scm/manifest.scm, if we keep it,
> should only happen in interactive use; I’ll double-check and make sure
> this is the case.
>
> It might still be possible to solve 57467, but I don't think this patch is
> the solution.
>

Could you propose an alternate solution?  What are the next steps here?
Right now all I know is that you don't like my patch.

- Dave