Viewing the Guix manual in Emacs under Guix

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Hi everyone,

I have just set up a virtual machine for test-driving Guix as a software 
development and deployment tool in scientific computing. I found the 
Guix SD to be a bit too minimal for my needs, so I started from a 
minimal Debian 8 system and added the Guix package manager. I haven't 
done anything else but installing software until now, but so far it 
looks very good!

However, I would appreciate having the Guix manual more easily 
accessible in my main working environment, which is Emacs. I expected it 
to show up in the info directory, but it doesn't. I have to use the info 
tool from the command line, which is, well, suboptimal.

I tried to fix this myself as an exercise in working with Guix, but it 
seems that Guix profiles do not handle INFOPATH at all. I do not 
consider setting INFOPATH in my .bashrc for now, as that would be 
cheating ;-)

So is there a Guix-y way to add info files from packages to Emacs' info 
directory?

Konrad.