From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 10:03:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mudrxvs8.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mudd59ho.fsf@gnu.org> <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <661cb4aa-f866-01a1-c7b7-4428eb7c801f@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRukc-0000gl-KM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:03:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRukb-00043C-Ii for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:03:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <661cb4aa-f866-01a1-c7b7-4428eb7c801f@crazy-compilers.com> 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: Hartmut Goebel , Pierre Neidhardt , Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Hartmut, > This becomes even messier if we would implement a "guix develop" > command, which is yet just another version of environment/profile. Yes, I worry also about making more of a mess by implementing special-purpose variants. > And adding another dimension: spawning a sub-shell (environment) or not > (profile). How is this different from the ephemeral vs. persistent dimension? Creating an ephemeral package set makes sense only if you spwan a process in it (not necessarily a shell). Cheers, Konrad