Re: The future of 'guix environment'

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Thompson, David writes:

>> Wouldn't that be
>>
>>     guix environment --cache --dependencies --load=guix.scm
>
> No, because guix.scm would no longer evaluate to a package object, but
> an environment object.

Ah, nice.  Thank for the explanation!

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?

> I took a look at emacs-direnv and did not like it because it's not
> fully implemented in elisp. You also need the direnv tool itself,
> which is written in Go. No thanks!

No thanks here too.  A yoghurt language just to run a shell, ugh.


Greetings,
janneke

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