On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 11:12 AM Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 11:48:53AM -0500, Jason Conroy wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 3:08 AM Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Until then
> > > I've been experimenting by manually listing the other crates I've
> needed
> > > but in theory we could try to make `guix shell --development` pull in
> > > the needed crates.
> > >
> >
> > I was considering another option that falls somewhere in between: since
> I'm
> > already building shells from manifest files, it should suffice to have a
> > Scheme utility function that calculates the transitive dependencies for a
> > given list of library packages. Similar logic seems to exist already in
> > `(guix build-system cargo)` but it's not exposed publicly. As interim
> > solutions go, what do you think about this one versus modifying `guix
> > shell`?
>
> Once you have something like that working it shouldn't be too hard to
> merge that into `guix shell`, assuming we go that route.
>

Sounds good, I'll follow up if my exercise produces anything useful. Thanks
for the input!