From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: The future of 'guix environment' Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 09:13:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87efrsyzl4.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3py63j4.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnll8-0007i6-0g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:13:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnll6-0005u9-Tz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:13:17 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::22e]:34400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnll6-0005tT-OY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:13:16 -0400 Received: by mail-vk0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id s199so520779vke.1 for ; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 06:13:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y3py63j4.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > One thing I didn't see in your proposal is something like > > guix environment --manifest manifest.scm > > It really bothers me that I can only declaritavely populate/maintain > named profiles. Do you have an idea about that? Never thought about it before. Maybe --load could support evaluating to a package, a manifest, or an environment? Seems like that might be getting into crazy territory, but maybe not. - Dave