On 2021-10-02, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Here comes ‘guix shell’, a proposed replacement for ‘guix environment’! Yay! > ‘guix environment’ would stay around though, at least for some time, > probably for a long time. > > The differences to ‘guix environment’ are: ... > 2. ‘guix shell’, without arguments, loads ‘guix.scm’ or ‘manifest.scm’ > from the current directory or one of its ancestors. This sounds a little scary to me, just implicitly importing whatever happens to be lying around doesn't sound very guixy... Wouldn't it be better to: guix shell guix.scm or guix shell ./guix.scm or guix shell --some-argument guix.scm Or maybe I'm not understanding the idea all that well... live well, vagrant