Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > >> 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. > > I very much agree with that. I don’t think ‘--pure’ should be the > default, because there are valid use cases for that. > > As for ‘--ad-hoc’: making it the default is technically easy. The > difficulty is to come up with a nice transition/deprecation mechanism so > that we don’t break everyone’s script overnight. > > Ideas on how to achieve it are welcome! > > Thanks, > Ludo’.
It suddenly struck me today that there is an easy way to change the default behavior while supporting the legacy behavior. How about we have a new command, "guix env", what is --ad-hoc by default? Then "guix environment" sticks around as legacy for supporting the old interface. Therefore, "guix env" is doubly short and to the point. :)
