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.