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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The future of 'guix environment'
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 13:50:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3py63j4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfarjZ4HYBK7cL0F6dmuoGYt8GT+X3_EuPqS7=xtRDzL-A@mail.gmail.com> (David Thompson's message of "Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:28:28 -0400")

Thompson, David writes:

>> Wouldn't that be
>>
>>     guix environment --cache --dependencies --load=guix.scm
>
> No, because guix.scm would no longer evaluate to a package object, but
> an environment object.

Ah, nice.  Thank for the explanation!

One thing I didn't see in your proposal is something like

    guix environment --manifest manifest.scm

It really bothers me that I can only declaritavely populate/maintain
named profiles.  Do you have an idea about that?

> I took a look at emacs-direnv and did not like it because it's not
> fully implemented in elisp. You also need the direnv tool itself,
> which is written in Go. No thanks!

No thanks here too.  A yoghurt language just to run a shell, ugh.


Greetings,
janneke

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-01 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-30 13:22 The future of 'guix environment' Thompson, David
2017-08-30 15:11 ` 宋文武
2017-08-30 15:33   ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-30 15:43   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-31 15:00     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-30 15:56   ` Andreas Enge
2017-08-31  1:28     ` Thompson, David
2017-09-01  3:57       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-09-01 13:15         ` Thompson, David
2017-09-02 21:06         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-03  7:15           ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-05 12:42             ` Thompson, David
2017-09-05 14:34               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-30 15:52 ` Andreas Enge
2017-08-31  7:18 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-08-31 13:28   ` Thompson, David
2017-09-01 11:50     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2017-09-01 12:08       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-09-01 12:25         ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-01 13:13       ` Thompson, David
2017-08-31 15:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-01  0:29   ` Thompson, David
2017-09-02 21:09     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-01  3:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber

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