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bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?
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Brett Gilio |
Subject: |
bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'? |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:17:24 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have long thought that --ad-hoc should be implied, as that is the
> mode I use 99% of the time, but I disagree that --pure should be the
> default. Most of the time I (and I suspect most other users) just want
> to temporarily augment the current environment with a package or two
> and I think that shouldn't require any special flags (neither --ad-hoc
> nor --pure). The current default behavior of making an environment
> from package dependencies is because that's how nix-shell worked (or
> at least how I thought it worked) and 'guix environment' was created
> as a clone of that tool.
>
> - Dave
I was waiting for somebody to say this. But, I am 100% in agreement with
Dave as far as the behavior of --pure. I really would like to see either
nothing change, or we make --ad-hoc the implied default.
My reasoning confers with Dave's logic.
--
Brett M. Gilio
https://git.sr.ht/~brettgilio/
- bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/12/08
- bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?, zimoun, 2019/12/08
- bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Gábor Boskovits, 2019/12/12
- bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, zimoun, 2019/12/12
- bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Gábor Boskovits, 2019/12/12
- bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, zimoun, 2019/12/13
- bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Gábor Boskovits, 2019/12/13
- bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, zimoun, 2019/12/13
- bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Gábor Boskovits, 2019/12/13
- bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/12/16