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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some general guix questions
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 22:40:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhsaltfp.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0p66dwb.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>


Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> I think your solution is more elegant, Ricardo, because it's not robust to
> change (the AWK parsing could break).
>
> Question: why should we run it from a Guix checkout?

So that you can use “./pre-inst-env guile” which makes sure that you’re
using the Guix modules from the checkout.  When you’re using “guix pull”
you’d have to first set the load path to the correct location (otherwise
it would take the system load path, which might give you older Guix
modules).

--
Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-08 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-08 16:43 Some general guix questions Divan Santana
2019-01-08 17:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-08 20:36   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-08 21:24     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-08 21:40       ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-09 18:09     ` George Clemmer
2019-01-22 10:28       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-09  7:51   ` Divan Santana
2019-01-08 19:26 ` George Clemmer
2019-01-09  7:50   ` Divan Santana
2019-01-08 20:00 ` Tonton
2019-01-09  7:48   ` Divan Santana

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