Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment'

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I guess we must still support -E for compatibility.  Probably it should
>> do an implicit ‘sh -c’?
>
> This introduces implementation issues.  What if a user provides both a
> -E command *and* a command after '--'?  What's the sane thing to do?
>
> I also don't feel strongly that we need to keep flags around for
> compatibility this early in the game, given that we are alpha software
> and such.
>
> Thoughts?

I thought it would be nice to keep also for convenience...

-E 'foo' is somewhat nicer than -- sh -c 'foo'.

Taylan