guix environment: list packages in a file

guix environment: list packages in a file

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a way to pass to `guix environment` the list
package names to be installed in a file.

I know `--load=file` where file is a scheme file. The drawback of this
is that one need to know in which scheme module the package is defined –
thus this is much more complicated than imply naming the packages like
on the command line.

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Hartmut Goebel

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Re: guix environment: list packages in a file

[Marius Bakke]

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Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a way to pass to `guix environment` the list
> package names to be installed in a file.
>
> I know `--load=file` where file is a scheme file. The drawback of this
> is that one need to know in which scheme module the package is defined –
> thus this is much more complicated than imply naming the packages like
> on the command line.

Maybe you can use specification->package instead? See e.g.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Globally_002dVisible-Packages

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