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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Adding a subcommand "load-profile"
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 10:52:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dxqojag.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zdcivp0.fsf@ponder> (Vagrant Cascadian's message of "Sun, 03 May 2020 13:56:43 -0700")

Hi,

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:

>> I’m interested in your feedback then.
>>
>> To me, there are already several ways to do that, notably:
>>
>>   1. guix environment (but it’s slower)
>>
>>   2. sh
>>      . /my/profile/etc/profile.sh
>>      exit
>>
>>   3. sh
>>      eval `guix package -p /my/profile --search-paths`
>>      exit
>>
>> Options #2 and #3 are more verbose, and less obvious to someone not
>> familiar with the shell.
>
> The only way i understand how to trivially get a precise environment is
> "guix environment --pure --ad-hoc package1, package2, ... packageN"
>
> Don't options #2 and #3 also include everything from the default profile
> and system profile?

Option #2 yes, option #3 no: there’s ‘--search-paths=exact’ (the
default), ‘--search-paths=prefix’, and ‘--search-paths=suffix’.

Ludo’.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-28 15:42 Adding a subcommand "load-profile" Roel Janssen
2020-04-28 16:54 ` zimoun
2020-04-29 12:47   ` Roel Janssen
2020-04-29 13:48     ` zimoun
2020-04-29 19:14       ` Roel Janssen
2020-04-28 17:34 ` sirgazil
2020-05-03 20:31   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-03 20:56     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-05-04 13:36       ` zimoun
2020-05-05  8:52       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-05-04 13:34     ` zimoun

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