Hi, Alex, Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I have questions about installing/deleting packages using guile repl. > I know it is possible to ‘(guix-package "--install" "guile-2.0.11")’, > but is there an easy way to install an output of an exact _package > object_? I mean not any "guile" but #<package guile-2.0.11 ...>. > > I think ‘(guix-package "--install-from-expression" ...)’ is also not > sufficient as it always (?) installs “out”. This is correct. (It could be worked around by adding a command-line option to specify another output, but that just hadn’t seem very useful so far.) > There is a lot of code in “guix/scripts/package.scm” to do all that > stuff and unfortunately not much is exported from this module > (“package->manifest-entry” from “options->installable” would be very > useful for example), and I think trying to include this code in the > helper scheme file for guix.el is not right (besides my scheme foo is > weak and I'm not sure I can do that successfully) that's why I ask > about an easier way. Well, you’ve already understood what needs to be done. :-) Namely, (guix scripts package) needs to be made more modular, and the generic bits must be moved to (guix profiles). Now that there’s a second consumer for this API, there’s more of an incentive to do it. I’m willing to help for that, but I’m happy if you give it a try. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo’.
