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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Shell installer script (feedback)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:18:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvi7fbif.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ2oKZXiRQeHxJSEC4CeYbxAXQMzrpKme872T73fXPJ=ZQ@mail.gmail.com>


Hi simon,

> As a newcomer, I find it lacks an optional installation of default
> packages in the default profiles.
> I have in mind: nss-certs, recutils, emacs (or info), glibc-locales.

I think that’s fine as the purpose of this script is just to get Guix
itself installed.  For everything past that you can use Guix.

> Then, "Run 'info guix' to read the manual." does not work.
> Because the command info is not installed by default on all the distributions.
>
> And the Guix manual does not seem installed by default. Am I doing wrong?

This has recently been fixed, but it’s not working in the 0.16.0 release.

-- 
Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-17 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-17 17:10 Shell installer script (feedback) zimoun
2019-01-17 17:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-17 18:02   ` zimoun
2019-01-17 19:17     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-17 18:32 ` swedebugia
2019-01-17 20:30   ` zimoun

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