David Thompson writes: > Hello Guix hackers, > > Below is a preliminary version of a new guix command called > 'environment'. For those familiar with Nix, it works a lot like > nix-shell. [...] > By default, running 'guix environment' spawns a new $SHELL process, > because it is usually what one would want to do. However, the '--exec' > flag can be used to specify the command to run.
For this option, together with the --search-paths option, would it be possible to customize the syntax of the output from the show-search-paths function? This might be a question for other guix commands as well. Either the current shell or the shell from --exec might set variables in a different way. E.g. the user is using the "fish" shell, and doesn't want to spawn a new process, they should be able to:: eval (guix environment --search-paths guile) Btw, fish uses 'set -x PATH "..."' to export PATH set to "..." Just a thought. > Finally, the '--load' flag can be used to read a package from a file > instead of searching $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. Could we instead have a -L or --load-path option like for `guix build`? This would be useful if the user wants to give multiple packages to `guix environment` that are all outside $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. I'm very excited for this. -- Eric Bavier Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
