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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/environment.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/environment.py b/lib/spack/spack/environment.py index 68639a9deb..62cad8545c 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/environment.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/environment.py @@ -1029,7 +1029,14 @@ class Environment(object): view = self._view_path else: view = False - config_dict(self.yaml)['view'] = view + + if view is not True: + # The default case is to keep an active view inside of the + # Spack environment directory. To avoid cluttering the config, + # we omit the setting in this case. + yaml_dict['view'] = view + elif 'view' in yaml_dict: + del yaml_dict['view'] # if all that worked, write out the manifest file at the top level with fs.write_tmp_and_move(self.manifest_path) as f: |