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To: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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Le 2015-08-09 17:59, David Thompson a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
> 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':
>=20
>     guix package -e '(primitive-load "package.scm")'
>=20
> This patch adds a shorthand for this:
>=20
>     guix package -f package.scm

What about dispatch `guix package -i` depending on the argument. In=20
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=20
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`=20
and `guix search`.

>=20
> The motivation for this is to ultimately encourage other people to keep
> a 'package.scm' file in their own repos for building reproducible
> development environments and easily testing development snapshots, like
> what we do with our 'guix-devel' package.
>=20
> I'd like to add the same option for 'guix build', if this is approved.