Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>> After processing options, guix need to "expanduser()" (as it is called
>> in Python) on all arguments which are paths.
>
> Please don't do it.
>
> UNIX has its warts, and this is a well-known one (use ${HOME} instead).
Seconded.
Tilde expansion is performed by the shell. In the case of
‘--foo=~/bar’, tilde expansion does not happen because ~ is right in the
middle of a string.
It’s admittedly annoying, but it’s not something Guix itself should
paper over. Doing that would open a can of worms, as illustrated by the
example Tobias gave.
Ludo’.
