From: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Add 'environment' command.
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:26:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tqhw3wp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfaHbyrUy4eJXk3-AR16_RxS9JrvGJe-C_yj1dVm+HGR_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Thompson, David writes:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> David Thompson writes:
>>
>>> Finally, the '--load' flag can be used to read a package from a file
>>> instead of searching $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
>>
>> Could we instead have a -L or --load-path option like for `guix build`?
>> This would be useful if the user wants to give multiple packages to
>> `guix environment` that are all outside $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
>>
>
> The -L flag also works to add to the load path.
I see now that it plugs into (guix scripts build)'s option handling.
Thanks for pointing that out.
> Lower-case 'l' calls 'load' on the given file and expects a package or
> list of packages in return. For this I envision having a
> 'package.scm' or similar file in my git repos so that I can run 'guix
> environment -l package.scm' to create a development environment
> without altering load paths or having 'package.scm' define a module.
Yes, and then a new importer that reads package.scm to populate the
inputs field ;)
--
Eric Bavier
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-09 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-08 22:48 [PATCH] scripts: Add 'environment' command David Thompson
2014-10-09 6:44 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-09 16:50 ` Eric Bavier
2014-10-09 16:54 ` Thompson, David
2014-10-09 17:26 ` Eric Bavier [this message]
2014-10-09 19:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-10 2:32 ` David Thompson
2014-10-10 12:09 ` David Thompson
2014-10-10 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-10 18:09 ` David Thompson
2014-10-10 20:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-10 22:16 ` David Thompson
2014-10-11 10:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-11 12:27 ` David Thompson
2014-10-11 21:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-12 4:43 ` Setting environment variables in .bashrc vs .bash_profile Mark H Weaver
2014-10-12 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
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