From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The future of 'guix environment'
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:57:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lglz2hrn.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=Rwfb9TNLGD0qVHHb4MtfLgt2eVNRA9ZTUjdXjZHDhH5P5Rw@mail.gmail.com>
Thompson, David writes:
> Ricardo, you are correct that we would lose the ability to use the
> guix.scm file for both 'guix environment' and 'guix build'. In
> practice I don't actually use my guix.scm file this way, so I think
> it's worth breaking, but maybe you (or someone else) actually uses
> this and we should think more about it?
I do use guix.scm for testing `guix build'. Maybe I ma the only one
though. It turns out to be very useful to find out whether or not I've
done something that borked my package that's not obvious because I have
some compiled .go file around in working directory or something.
> I wasn't very clear about whether ephemeral or cached would be the new
> default. I don't think there is one default for all cases, I think
> it's more context sensitive.
I'm a bit confused by caching, but IMO maybe the right solution is
actually guix environment for "environment profiles". Ie, I want to be
able to update my guix environment and if it turns out I made a mistake
easily roll back, just like I can with my user's profile. Currently
you can use --root, but you don't have the generations support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-01 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-30 13:22 The future of 'guix environment' Thompson, David
2017-08-30 15:11 ` 宋文武
2017-08-30 15:33 ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-30 15:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-31 15:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-30 15:56 ` Andreas Enge
2017-08-31 1:28 ` Thompson, David
2017-09-01 3:57 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2017-09-01 13:15 ` Thompson, David
2017-09-02 21:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-03 7:15 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-05 12:42 ` Thompson, David
2017-09-05 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-30 15:52 ` Andreas Enge
2017-08-31 7:18 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-08-31 13:28 ` Thompson, David
2017-09-01 11:50 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-01 12:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-09-01 12:25 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-01 13:13 ` Thompson, David
2017-08-31 15:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-01 0:29 ` Thompson, David
2017-09-02 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-01 3:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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