I wrote:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> Note that I think we’ll most likely have a single ‘guix’ script in the
>> near future, so that ‘guix-pull’ can actually update everything: Guix,
>> commands, and distro.
>
> Okay, I have another proposal.  I've written a proposed 'guix' script
> that's pure Guile code.  The idea is that "guix FOO ARGS ..." augments
> the load paths as needed, loads the module (guix scripts guix-FOO) and
> then applies the procedure 'guix-FOO' to (ARGS ...)
>
> It also supports "guix-FOO ARGS ..." simply by making 'guix-FOO' a
> symlink to 'guix'.
>
> Then we can move all the scripts into guix/scripts/, and remove the
> boilerplate shell code from the top of all them.  They become pure guile
> modules.  No more shell at all.
>
> What do you think?

I went ahead and made a preliminary patch to do this.
Comments and suggestions welcome.

      Mark