Re: The future of 'guix environment'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> @Dave: I pretty much agree with all of the proposed changes.  One thing
> that may be lost, though, when using a new <guix-environment> record is
> easy ad-hoc packaging.
>
> Now I can use a guix.scm file both for building a Guix package and a
> Docker image; I would expect that it would no longer be possible to
> build a Guix package out of an environment file.  On the other hand,
> building a more fully featured container image would be even simpler
> with this change.

I think the new command could automatically convert <package> to
<environment>, such that you can still have a guix.scm file that defines
a package and can be passed both to ‘guix package -f’ and ‘guix
environment’.

Ludo’.