Re: Building from a local source code checkout

[Martin Castillo]

> I agree the matching-name constraint can be annoying.  The alternative
> would be allow the user to (optionally?) specify the name of the package
> whose source is being changed, as in:
> 
>   guix build python-activepapers \
>     --with-source=python-activepapers=$HOME/Dev/AP
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> A bit heavyweight syntactically but maybe we have to live with it.
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

Why can't guix use the argument package name argument?
                 v-- this one
guix build python-activepapers --with-source=$HOME/Dev/AP

Martin
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