Re: [PATCH] scripts: package: Add --install-from-file option.

[Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche@hypermove.net>]

Le 2015-08-19 10:27, Amirouche Boubekki a écrit :
> Le 2015-08-09 17:59, David Thompson a écrit :
>> In my personal projects, I keep a 'package.scm' file in the root of 
>> the
>> source tree for use with 'guix environment -l'.  However, it's also
>> handy to install that package by using 'guix package -e':
>> 
>>     guix package -e '(primitive-load "package.scm")'
>> 
>> This patch adds a shorthand for this:
>> 
>>     guix package -f package.scm
> 
> What about dispatch `guix package -i` depending on the argument. In
> principle there will be no "*.scm$" packages so the above could be
> 
>       guix package -i package.scm
> 
> The idea behind that is to keep the number of command to minimum. In
> this case, IMO, it makes sens to merge both logic inside the same UI.
> 
> On a similar note, I like a lot the idea of Andy Wingo `guix install`
> and `guix search`.

To be precise I prefer, `guix package install` and `guix package search` 
(which is not the subject of patch of Andy Wingo).