On 22-07-2022 19:12, kiasoc5 wrote:
> We could have packages recommend other packages to make this discovery
> easier for users, like Arch's opt-depends.

This sounds like my previous proposal to me:

> Alternatively, packages could have an additional set of inputs 
> (development-inputs?) for this use case, only added for "guix shell 
> -D" and "guix environment", though then the build environment and 
> "guix shell -D the-package" would diverge further. 
except it has a more precise semantics than Arch's, or did you have 
something different in mind?

Greetings,
Maxime.