From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 12:06:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mudrxvs8.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mudd59ho.fsf@gnu.org> <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58055) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRaBg-00037S-Ek for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 06:06:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRaBf-0007Vn-6c for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 06:06:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: Guix Devel Hi, On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 11:39, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > >> - A Scheme function to create a manifest for the necessary inputs of a > >> package, like =3Dguix environment PACKAGE=3D does. (Maybe it's alre= ady possible?) > > > > Like =E2=80=98specifications->manifest=E2=80=99? > > Can specifications->manifest do this? I do not think so. >From my point of view [1], something is missing. And to quote Ludo's answer [2]: "it=E2=80=99s a fact of life IMO. :-)" ;-) All the best, simon [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00193.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00219.html