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bug#15286: Add the current directory as GUILE_LOAD_PATH by default
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#15286: Add the current directory as GUILE_LOAD_PATH by default |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:13:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> skribis:
> Am Freitag, 6. September 2013, 14:10:27 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>> > Currently to install a local package definition, I have to adjust the
>> > GUILE_LOAD_PATH by hand:
>> >
>> > GUILE_LOAD_PATH=. guix package -e '(@ (mercurial) hg)'
>> >
>> > This could be much clearer if the $pwd were in the load path automatically.
>>
>> As usual, it is a bad idea to include ‘.’ in the search path, because it
>> makes it easy to unwillingly execute untrusted code.
>
> I now learned, that with guile I can use
>
> guile -L .
>
> which actually does what I need.
>
> Providing this in guix would be consistent with guile and it would make it
> really easy to select overlays.
If this is a ‘-L’ option, then I’d say no. After all, Guix is just
another Guile library, and as such it must not fiddle with the search
path.
Ludo’.