From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment' Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 11:42:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87io6iqhbt.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87ziztyext.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbahpfrn.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZkDLN-0005yf-IP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:43:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZkDLJ-0006Oy-Hz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:42:57 -0400 Received: from mail-yk0-f180.google.com ([209.85.160.180]:33412) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZkDLJ-0006OD-Cz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:42:53 -0400 Received: by ykft14 with SMTP id t14so52598633ykf.0 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:42:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vbahpfrn.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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > I guess we must still support -E for compatibility. Probably it should > do an implicit =E2=80=98sh -c=E2=80=99? This introduces implementation issues. What if a user provides both a -E command *and* a command after '--'? What's the sane thing to do? I also don't feel strongly that we need to keep flags around for compatibility this early in the game, given that we are alpha software and such. Thoughts? - Dave