[bug#50960] [PATCH 00/10] Add 'guix shell' to subsume 'guix environment'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:

> Guix itself doesn't follow this convention: the guix source tree has an 
> unrelated
> "guix.scm" file, that doesn't evaluate to a package.

Indeed, but that’s because Guix predates the convention.  :-)

> I'd expect that running "guix shell" within the guix source tree would
> be equivalent to "guix environment guix", but currently this doesn't
> seem to be the case.

Right, it would fail poorly in this particular case.

Ludo’.