Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> skribis: > But you are missing my main point: While `guix environment --ad-hoc > python-requests` installs some depended python packages, it does not > install `python`. This is asymmetric and quite different than users are > used from rpm and deb based systems.
Indeed. I understand this is surprising. It stems from the fact that Guix doesn’t know about the relation between ‘python-requests’ and ‘python’. Even if it did, it’s not clear to me that automatically installing both would be a good idea. There are cases where one may want to choose a particular variant of the ‘python’ package rather than have an arbitrarily chosen default. Does it make sense? > To take this one step further: Assume in GuixSD 1.3 some user is told > "install python-bla-blub vai the Guix Package Manager GUI", then she > ends up with an incomplete environment. She would have to figure out > what other dependencies (esp. the language interpreter) are required. Most likely one would provide a file that can be passed to ‘guix environment -l’ instead of writing down the instructions. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
