Am Donnerstag, dem 05.05.2022 um 18:33 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos: > > Manifests are scheme code, you can put as many of them into a file > > as you want. For the interface to Guix commands you have to return > > one at a time, sure, but that's not the limitation you think it is. > > Exactly: "guix shell" and the like (currently) only accept a single > manifest. That's not even true. The manifest flag is repeatable.
> So at least currently (with the exception of "guix install") > and guix home, profiles correspond to manifests correspond to > manifest files. And I'm not sure what limitation you are referring > to? -- Technically, you can put multiple manifests in a single file, > but currently these extra manifests are meaningless, given that the > current CLI tools only support a single manifest at the time. Exactly. This limitation is just that, the last line of a file specified with -m should evaluate to a single manifest. This does not imply that a single file can never evaluate to a different manifest than one it already evaluated to.
