Hi Pierre, Hi zimoun, On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:14:53 +0100 Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
> zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Do you have in mind commands where the option --load-path is still missing? > > Maybe "guix graph"? > > Yes. > > > Maybe "guix edit"? > > Yes. ... why? There's the environment variable already--what does it give us to have yet another way to specify the value? Shells allow you to do ENVVAR1=value command1 anyway. zimoun wrote: >But IMHO, the normal use should be via the --load-path option and the >GUIX_LOAD_PATH should be less and less used; stay here for historical >reason and/or backward compatibility and/or some devel use-case. Why? *PATH environment variables have a long tradition in UNIX and are not going to vanish (or mean something else any time) soon. What is the use case this change is supposed to enable?
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