From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri Jun 01 08:58:18 2018 Received: (at 31669) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Jun 2018 12:58:18 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56937 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOjdJ-0007f1-UV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:58:18 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56280) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOjdI-0007en-9C for 31669@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:58:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOjd8-0008PG-5p for 31669@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:58:11 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53189) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOjd8-0008P7-1g; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:58:06 -0400 Received: from [193.50.110.154] (port=46192 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fOjd7-0006JU-Jt; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:58:05 -0400 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Rutger Helling Subject: Re: bug#31669: 'guix system' enhancements References: <20180531164438.1e7a6976@mykolab.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:58:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20180531164438.1e7a6976@mykolab.com> (Rutger Helling's message of "Thu, 31 May 2018 16:44:38 +0200") Message-ID: <87bmcuackk.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 31669 Cc: 31669@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -6.0 (------) Hello, Rutger Helling skribis: > This isn't really a bug, but I noticed that 'guix system' right now canno= t use certain common build > options like 'with-input'. I don't know how hard it would be to add > that, because I think it could be pretty useful for something like the > following for example: > > guix system reconfigure --with-input=3Dopenssl=3Dlibressl system.scm Note that =E2=80=98--with-input=E2=80=99 & co. are *package* transformation= options, so the question is which packages we=E2=80=99d apply them to. We could take those options as applying to all the packages in the global profile, but it may not be exactly what people would expect because it would not apply to packages used by Shepherd services. WDYT? Ludo=E2=80=99.