From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 09:35:32 +0100 Message-ID: <661cb4aa-f866-01a1-c7b7-4428eb7c801f@crazy-compilers.com> References: <87mudrxvs8.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mudd59ho.fsf@gnu.org> <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRuJO-0001XM-M2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2019 03:35:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRuJN-0005Ja-Lx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2019 03:35:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Konrad Hinsen , Pierre Neidhardt , =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Am 05.11.19 um 07:26 schrieb Konrad Hinsen: > In Guix we have ephemeral (environment) vs. persistent (profile), ad-hoc > (package -i, environment from package lists, ...) and declarative > (manifests). It's a bit of a mess. +1 This becomes even messier if we would implement a "guix develop" command, which is yet just another version of environment/profile. And adding another dimension: spawning a sub-shell (environment) or not (profile). -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |