Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]> skribis: > Am Freitag, 6. September 2013, 14:10:27 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]> 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’.
