Why don't "guix pack" and "guix environment" accept manifests?

Why don't "guix pack" and "guix environment" accept manifests?

[Konrad Hinsen]

Hi everyone,

Today I tried to convert one of my Guix profiles into a Docker image, 
and naively tried

	guix pack -f docker -m my-manifest.scm

Now I know it doesn't work, but I wonder if there is a good reason or if 
this is just not implemented? The same question applies to "guix 
environment". Maybe even "guix build", although I don't see a use case 
for that. But I'd expect to be able to use a manifest wherever a list of 
packages is required.

Konrad.

Re: Why don't "guix pack" and "guix environment" accept manifests?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Konrad,

> Today I tried to convert one of my Guix profiles into a Docker image, 
> and naively tried
>
> 	guix pack -f docker -m my-manifest.scm
>
> Now I know it doesn't work, but I wonder if there is a good reason or if 
> this is just not implemented?

I don’t think there’s a good reason.  “guix pack” accepts a store item
such as a profile, which may have been built from a manifest.  I
wouldn’t mind accepting a patch to add support for a manifest option for
“guix pack”.

-- 
Ricardo

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