Hi! "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Conversely, useful metadata is missing: for instance, I’d like to add >> something that would allow me to specify the equivalent of ‘--network >> --expose=$HOME/.gdbinit’ in development environments I use. >> >> Perhaps the solution is to introduce a new way to declare development >> environments? It would be similar to ‘package’, but without ‘synopsis’, >> ‘description’, and a couple other things; it could have additional >> fields to describe container setups and such likes; it would compile >> down to a bag, just like packages. >> >> What do you think? > > Hmm, that sounds like a good idea. Maybe I'll try to write a > prototype sometime. The downside of this method is that one could no > longer use the same expression as input to 'guix build -f' or 'guix > package -f'. Good point. That would be a drawback of the approach, but probably we can support both styles. Thanks, Ludo’.
