recipes. In other cases, you will be able to examine the read-only recipes
for packages currently in the store.
+Instead of @code{GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH}, the command-line option
+@code{--load-path=@var{directory}} (or in short @code{-L
+@var{directory}}) allows you to add @var{directory} to the front of the
+package module search path and so make your own packages visible.
@node Invoking guix download
@section Invoking @command{guix download}
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2015 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
(define-module (guix scripts edit)
#:use-module (guix ui)
#:use-module (guix scripts)
+ #:use-module ((guix scripts build) #:select (%standard-build-options))
#:use-module (guix utils)
#:use-module (gnu packages)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
guix-edit))
(define %options
- (list (option '(#\h "help") #f #f
+ (list (find (lambda (option)
+ (member "load-path" (option-names option)))
+ %standard-build-options)
+ (option '(#\h "help") #f #f
(lambda args
(show-help)
(exit 0)))
(define (show-help)
(display (G_ "Usage: guix edit PACKAGE...
Start $VISUAL or $EDITOR to edit the definitions of PACKAGE...\n"))
+ (newline)
+ (display (G_ "
+ -L, --load-path=DIR prepend DIR to the package module search path"))
(newline)
(display (G_ "
-h, --help display this help and exit"))