Re: guix environment ad-hoc manifests

2020-10-24 Thread Reza Alizadeh Majd
Dear Simon, On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:22:46 +0200 zimoun wrote: > From my understanding, as Ricardo said, the command: > >guix environment -m my-manifest.scm > > is equivalent to: > > guix environment --ad-hoc pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 > Thanks for your response. yes this is exactly what I was loo

Re: guix environment ad-hoc manifests

2020-10-24 Thread Reza Alizadeh Majd
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:16:21 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > yes, a possible use-case would be to provide a development > > environment for a software which is not packaged yet. during > > development phase, we could easily update this manifest file and > > include third-parties we need to use.

Re: guix environment ad-hoc manifests

2020-10-22 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 22:05, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > Or perhaps a solution could be to simply allow multiple --manifest > files, so that one could oneself distinguish between them via file name, > but Guix uses them as if their content was merged in one file instead? It is already the

Re: guix environment ad-hoc manifests

2020-10-22 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
On 10/22/20 6:00 PM, help-guix-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > Reza Alizadeh Majd writes: > >> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:53:10 +0200 >> Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >>> Reza Alizadeh Majd writes: >>> it would also be great to be able to pass list of ad-hoc packages, using a manifest file, something

Re: guix environment ad-hoc manifests

2020-10-22 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 11:10, Reza Alizadeh Majd wrote: > working with guix environments, we can pass list of packages, using a > manifest file. we also can use --ad-hoc switch for additional packages > we need to add to the prepared environment. > > it would also be great to be able to pa

Re: guix environment ad-hoc manifests

2020-10-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Reza Alizadeh Majd writes: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:53:10 +0200 > Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> Reza Alizadeh Majd writes: >> >> > it would also be great to be able to pass list of ad-hoc packages, >> > using a manifest file, something like --ad-hoc-manifest switch. or >> > maybe there is such

Re: guix environment ad-hoc manifests

2020-10-22 Thread Reza Alizadeh Majd
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:53:10 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Reza Alizadeh Majd writes: > > > it would also be great to be able to pass list of ad-hoc packages, > > using a manifest file, something like --ad-hoc-manifest switch. or > > maybe there is such option already available that I missed.

Re: guix environment ad-hoc manifests

2020-10-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Reza Alizadeh Majd writes: > it would also be great to be able to pass list of ad-hoc packages, > using a manifest file, something like --ad-hoc-manifest switch. or > maybe there is such option already available that I missed. What would that look like? Just a file containing package names?