Hi Attila, Attila Lendvai <att...@lendvai.name> skribis:
> i was writing the documentation of a guix.scm file, and i realized that > there's an inconsistency among the three most used commands in this context: > > so, there's: > - guix build --file > - guix package --file > > and then there's: > - guix environment --load > - guix pack # has neither > > i'd propose to change guix environment to also use --file, but maybe i'm > overlooking something, so, please speak up if you think it's a bad idea! > > i never used guix pack, but maybe that also deserves a --file argument? Good point. ‘--file’ predates ‘--manifest’; we could perhaps deprecate ‘--file’ in favor of ‘--manifest’, though I think there’s one special case not handled elsewhere: guix build -f foo.json We need to do something about it. ‘guix environment --load’ could be similarly deprecated, either to be eventually removed or to be renamed to ‘--file’. Thoughts? Ludo’.
