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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>
Cc: Robin Templeton <robin@terpri.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix environment --load vs. --file inconsistency
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:00:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtnwam86.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DoHl7ZzL7P18lQoNxfGoqoQZu6WvWNH3dIFlVlorbUL7m3_De-JqNXUYQNr_wst-Tr1wJQ7gI74hTkTuP7HBIfI2LwyT8HXrJAvGAWqriVY=@lendvai.name> (Attila Lendvai's message of "Sat, 25 Sep 2021 10:05:58 +0000")

Hi Robin & Attila,

Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> skribis:

> FWIW, i'm new to Guix, and it was enough to read the --help output to
> understand how --file works, but i still don't know what manifests are
> (even though i'm regularly using `guix package -m
> /path/to/manifest.scm`, which i have copied from somewhere).
>
> i know where it's documented. what i'm talking about here is how to
> optimize the results/time ratio of the project for newcomers; IOW, the
> project's approachability. i just haven't gotten to reading up on
> manifests, and yet i'm already getting things done.

Alright, I hadn’t seen it from that perspective, but that makes a lot of
sense.

Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.

PS: <https://guix.gnu.org/guix-refcard.pdf> hopefully contains enough
    about manifests to get you started.


      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-23 19:26 guix environment --load vs. --file inconsistency Attila Lendvai
2021-09-23 20:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-24 13:38   ` zimoun
2021-09-24 20:54   ` Robin Templeton
2021-09-25 10:05     ` Attila Lendvai
2021-09-28 13:00       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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