From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving the usability of 'guix environment'
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:35:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fvphaxa.fsf@fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150210181747.GB29701@debian>
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:45:02AM -0500, David Thompson wrote:
>> guix environment guile guile-sdl # let's tinker with SDL in Guile
>
> Is this not already covered by doing a "guix package -i ...", tinkering,
> and a roll-back? There is one more line to type for the roll-back.
> The functionality with installing inputs is much more useful as it saves
> a lot of typing, and looking up which inputs are needed.
That works, but it creates more of a mess than it ought to and isn't as
automated. I do not want to add a new generation to my profile (that
then must be explicitly GC'd later), and I want all of the environment
variables automatically setup for me somewhat like the build daemon
does. Furthermore, 'guix environment' can create a pure environment,
where, in this example, only guile and guile-sdl things would be present
in the search paths.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-10 16:45 Improving the usability of 'guix environment' David Thompson
2015-02-10 17:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-10 17:53 ` David Thompson
2015-02-10 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-13 13:47 ` David Thompson
2015-02-10 18:17 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 18:35 ` David Thompson [this message]
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