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[bug#54393] [PATCH 0/2] Add 'guix manifest' to "translate" commands to m
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Liliana Marie Prikler |
Subject: |
[bug#54393] [PATCH 0/2] Add 'guix manifest' to "translate" commands to manifests |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:18:57 +0100 |
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Evolution 3.42.1 |
Hi,
Am Montag, dem 14.03.2022 um 22:50 +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Hello Guix!
>
> Writing manifests can be intimidating: in part because it’s not
> well documented, and in part because it’s always hard to start from
> a blank page.
>
> We have ‘guix package --export-manifest’ to help with that, but I
> realized that colleagues of mine often use ‘guix shell’ more than
> ‘guix package’, and ‘--export-manifest’ is awkward to use:
>
> $ guix shell a b c d --transform=whatever=else
> [env]$ guix package --export-manifest -p $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT
>
> I figured that instead of documenting this, we might as well provide
> a command that does it in one go:
>
> guix manifest a b c d --transform=whatever=else > manifest.scm
>
> Voilà!
>
> Thoughts?
The current implementation is missing the most important feature, which
would be ‘guix manifest --profile $GUIX_PROFILE’ :)
I think if we are to introduce a new command, we should make it handle
existing use cases as well. If people then prefer ‘guix manifest’ over
‘guix package --export-manifest’, we can deprecate the old command in
favor of the new one.
Furthermore, one issue I have with both the existing and proposed
approaches is that both mandate the specification style, whereas for
operating system configs we typically prefer the variable style of
referencing a package. Adding an option to choose between the two
would be much appreciated from my side.
Cheers
- [bug#54393] [PATCH 0/2] Add 'guix manifest' to "translate" commands to manifests, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54393] [PATCH 0/2] Add 'guix manifest' to "translate" commands to manifests, zimoun, 2022/03/15
- [bug#54393] [PATCH 0/2] Add 'guix manifest' to "translate" commands to manifests, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/15
- [bug#54393] [PATCH 0/2] Add 'guix manifest' to "translate" commands to manifests, zimoun, 2022/03/15
- [bug#54393] [PATCH 0/2] Add 'guix manifest' to "translate" commands to manifests, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/15
- [bug#54393] [PATCH v2 0/3] Add '--export-manifest' to 'guix shell', Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/31
- [bug#54393] [PATCH v2 1/3] packages: Add 'package-unique-version-prefix'., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/31
- [bug#54393] [PATCH v2 2/3] environment: Export 'load-manifest'., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/31