"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > Hi, > > I have long thought that --ad-hoc should be implied, as that is the > mode I use 99% of the time, but I disagree that --pure should be the > default. Most of the time I (and I suspect most other users) just want > to temporarily augment the current environment with a package or two > and I think that shouldn't require any special flags (neither --ad-hoc > nor --pure). The current default behavior of making an environment > from package dependencies is because that's how nix-shell worked (or > at least how I thought it worked) and 'guix environment' was created > as a clone of that tool. > > - Dave
I was waiting for somebody to say this. But, I am 100% in agreement with Dave as far as the behavior of --pure. I really would like to see either nothing change, or we make --ad-hoc the implied default. My reasoning confers with Dave's logic. -- Brett M. Gilio https://git.sr.ht/~brettgilio/
