The thing is that I want those dependencies in order to illustrate the bug that the readline module for guile is not available.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 00:11 Jack Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2020, Josh Marshall wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I ran into an issue where the readline module isn't available for the > > guile repl after installing `guile-readline`. It can be replicated > > via: > > > > `echo "(use-modules (ice-9 readline))" | guix environment --pure guile > > guile-readline -- guile` > > > > So with that, I'm pretty sure it isn't just me. > > I think you actually want to be using a different guix environment > command. > > guix environment --pure --ad-hoc guile guile-readline > > should get you what you want. The difference is that without --ad-hoc, > what you're asking for is an environment with all the dependencies of > guile and guile-readline. This is useful, for instance, if you want to > work on those packages. In this case, guile is available because > guile-readline depends on it, but nothing depends on guile-readline, so it > is not in the environment. > > With --ad-hoc, you specify the the packages you want in the environment > explicitly. > > See the manual [0] for more information and more advanced usage of > environment. > > [0] > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-environment.html > > This isn't the first time the --ad-hoc has caused confusion. I tend to use > that option more often than not. There was previous discussion [1] about > making environment more friendly to use interactively without breaking > compatibility, but more work is still needed on that front. > > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00126.html > > Hope that helps, > Jack >
