Hi,
When 'guix shell' is run without arguments, there is some convenient default logic applied to check for a manifest.scm or guix.scm file and do the right thing with it. However, using -- to override the default command like 'guix shell -- make' doesn't do the same thing. I expect that it would still automagically apply manifest.scm or guix.scm but just run the specified command instead of spawning a shell. Instead, 'guix shell' outputs this warning letting me know that something isn't right:
guix shell: warning: no packages specified; creating an empty environment
On one hand: Sure, I *did* pass arguments (though not flags.) On the other hand: I think this is a bad user experience. I doubt I'm alone in expecting the only difference between 'guix shell' and 'guix shell -- make' to be that 'make' is run instead of a shell. I can implement this if there's some indication that such a patch would be acceptable.
Thoughts?
- Dave