guix shell make --rebuild-cache on manifest change

‎10/29/2021 | 05:18:17 PM ‎jgart‎: civodul, wdyt of `--rebuild-cache` being automatic/the default for guix shell instead of having to explicitly specify the flag to rebuild the cache?

‎10/29/2021 | 05:18:31 PM ‎jgart‎: I think this is the default for docker or how docker works

‎10/29/2021 | 05:18:42 PM ‎jgart‎: I was discussing this with Ryan Prior the other day

‎10/29/2021 | 05:18:45 PM ‎nckx‎: Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

‎10/29/2021 | 05:18:51 PM ‎jgart‎: who had mentioned it to me

‎10/29/2021 | 05:19:36 PM ‎jgart‎: If you change the manifest then guix shell should rebuild the cache

‎10/29/2021 | 05:19:40 PM ‎jgart‎: that's how it works for docker

‎10/29/2021 | 05:19:53 PM ‎jgart‎: > Create manifest with 2 packages: python, python-requests. Run guix shell. Decide you want python-lxml instead: exit shell, edit manifest to add python-lxml, re-run guix shell. Type import lxml, it says no module named lxml.

‎10/29/2021 | 05:20:05 PM ‎jgart‎: That's quoting Ryan from our conversation

‎10/29/2021 | 05:20:11 PM ‎nckx‎: Oh.

‎10/29/2021 | 05:20:19 PM ‎nckx‎: That just sounds like a bug?

‎10/29/2021 | 05:20:27 PM ‎jgart‎: That was his experience that he was frustrated with

‎10/29/2021 | 05:20:30 PM ‎jgart‎: yup

However, as added later on IRC:

So I think this bug needs a concrete reproducer before we can

assume its existence.

Kind regards,

T G-R

On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 01:08:45 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:

Yes, this can probably be closed. I think Ludo mentioned that it works as I

hoped in the irc earlier today.

I haven't tried yet but I trust him that it does :)

Right: that's how it's supposed to work.

Then again, maybe Ryan found a scenario in which it didn't?

Let's find out more from the horse's mouth (CC'd).

Kind regards,

T G-R

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