On Sat, Nov 05, 2022 at 11:31:38AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 
> This is a bug we should fix.

btw, "shell" behaves similarly - only sees the "system" channel:

$ guix time-machine --channels=channels.scm -- shell -- guix describe
guix shell: warning: no packages specified; creating an empty
environment
Generation 18   Oct 25 2022 15:24:49    (current)
  guix a0751e3
      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
          branch: master
              commit: a0751e3250dfea7e52468c8090e18c3118d93a60

can this also be considered a bug? if so, is it worth sending a separate
bug report? 

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