From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Adding a subcommand "load-profile"
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 10:52:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dxqojag.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zdcivp0.fsf@ponder> (Vagrant Cascadian's message of "Sun, 03 May 2020 13:56:43 -0700")
Hi,
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:
>> I’m interested in your feedback then.
>>
>> To me, there are already several ways to do that, notably:
>>
>> 1. guix environment (but it’s slower)
>>
>> 2. sh
>> . /my/profile/etc/profile.sh
>> exit
>>
>> 3. sh
>> eval `guix package -p /my/profile --search-paths`
>> exit
>>
>> Options #2 and #3 are more verbose, and less obvious to someone not
>> familiar with the shell.
>
> The only way i understand how to trivially get a precise environment is
> "guix environment --pure --ad-hoc package1, package2, ... packageN"
>
> Don't options #2 and #3 also include everything from the default profile
> and system profile?
Option #2 yes, option #3 no: there’s ‘--search-paths=exact’ (the
default), ‘--search-paths=prefix’, and ‘--search-paths=suffix’.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-28 15:42 Adding a subcommand "load-profile" Roel Janssen
2020-04-28 16:54 ` zimoun
2020-04-29 12:47 ` Roel Janssen
2020-04-29 13:48 ` zimoun
2020-04-29 19:14 ` Roel Janssen
2020-04-28 17:34 ` sirgazil
2020-05-03 20:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-03 20:56 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-05-04 13:36 ` zimoun
2020-05-05 8:52 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-05-04 13:34 ` zimoun
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