bug#57467: 'guix shell' does not honor default behavior when given a specific command to run

[Maxime Devos]

On 06-09-2022 09:18, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> > "guix shell" is for making packages available in the
> > environment. Currently, "guix shell -- foobar" does not make any
> > packages available -- it's effectively a no-op except for setting
> > GUIX_ENVIRONMENT.
> >       
> True, though you could always have scripts that read:
>
>   guix shell $packages -- whatever
>
> and that will suddenly behave differently if $packages expands to an
> empty string.  Tricky!
>

Right, I didn't think of such uses.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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