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bug#64074: guix [COMMAND] --load-path does not check if path is valid
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#64074: guix [COMMAND] --load-path does not check if path is valid |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:39:47 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Christian Miller <miller.christian@proton.me> skribis:
> User can set load path with -L or --load-path in commands like guix
> build, guix time-machine and so on. But this flag does not check if
> the path is actually a valid directory. You can point to a directory
> that doesn't even exist on the filesystem.
Indeed. That’s the same for all similar search path command-line flags
(think ‘gcc -I…’, ‘ld -L…’, and so on).
> It should do that just like the -f or --file flag for the guilx build
> command.
I don’t think so; I think tolerating non-existent directories in the
search path is useful.
Thanks,
Ludo’.