tags 38529 +wontfix thanks Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Pierre, > > Pierre Neidhardt <[email protected]> writes: > >> --pure seems to be the more sensible behaviour. "Impure" environments >> can have unexpected behaviours, so it makes sense to only allow them >> when the user explicitly asks for it. > > Unfortunately Guix packages often don't work well with --pure. Be it > magit that depends on git, or Emacs that depend or coreutils, etc., > there are many things that are expected to be propagated and aren't > explicitly, by omission or sometimes for closure's size sake (when the > feature is optional). We could argue that is a good reason for the > proposed change :-). > > I think environments are great mostly for hacking and trying stuff > quickly, where the guarantees of Guix do not matter as much as for > profiles (and if they did, you'd be better with guix environment > --container anyway). > > So, I guess that makes me more on the side of "let's no change the > defaults for now". Closing this old forgotten issue as wontfix. Thanks, Maxim
