From: Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Skyler <skyvine@protonmail.com>, 62448@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62448: Inconsistent guile enviornment from guix shell
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:24:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs9mrnqi.fsf@jpoiret.xyz> (raw)
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Hi Skyler,
It's a shame that nobody had pointed out this (quite common) missing
piece earlier.
Skyler via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes:
> In spite of being reasonable, it is not particularly intuitive. Could I recommend an addition to the manual in section "7.1 Invoking guix-shell", adding text like the below after the example invocation `guix shell python python-numpy -- python3`?
>
> "Note that it is necessary to include the main python package in this command even if it is already installed into your environment. This is so that the shell environment knows to set PYTHONPATH and other related variables. The shell environment cannot check the previously installed environment, because then it would be non-deterministic."
Yes, this would be a good idea. I can try to do this right now.
Best,
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Josselin Poiret
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-30 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-25 19:10 bug#62448: Inconsistent guile enviornment from guix shell Skyler via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-03-29 21:23 ` Skyler via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-03-30 20:24 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2023-03-30 20:42 ` bug#62448: [PATCH] doc: Note that `guix shell` should contain base language packages Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-04-11 22:57 ` Skyler via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-04-12 8:35 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-04-12 12:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-04-13 19:53 ` Skyler via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-04-12 11:07 ` Simon Tournier
2023-08-25 16:30 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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