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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