Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2012 schrieb Andreas Enge:
> Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> > Anyway, what does work is something like:
> >   $ guix-package --profile=$HOME/.guix-profile --install=hello
> 
> This worked, but in a rather strange way.

Well, this is actually not strange, but documented in the manual,
I realise upon reading it again.

> Yes.  Currently ‘guix-package’ expects the default profile to be under
> /nix/var/nix/profiles/guix, which typically doesn’t exist, hence the
> failure.

However, the current behaviour is not consistent with the documentation.
"Instead of referring to these directories, users have their own
@dfn{profile}, which points to the packages that they actually want to
use.  That profile is normally stored in @code{$HOME/.guix-profile}, and
each user has its own profile."

"@item --profile=@var{profile}
@itemx -p @var{profile}
Use @var{profile} instead of the user's default profile."

This should be easy to fix.

Andreas