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Subject: Re: How can I add a package outside the guix source dir?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 11:01:24 +0200
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Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com> writes:

> I want to add a package which will used by myself, for example:
>
> I don't want to put it to guix source dir, How can I solve the problem?

You can set the environment variable GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH to
e.g. ~/.guix-packages then put that package definition into
~/.guix-packages/emacs.scm and it should work.

See (info "(guix) Package Modules"),
i.e. https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Modules.html

Taylan