On 10-10-2022 18:18, Mehmet Tekman wrote:
> Sorry for the message duplication, it's the default with my email provider.
> 
> If "guix shell -D guix --pure" is included in the new version of the
> manual, then I'm more than happy to drop my suggestion.
> Thanks for the extra context, and the general tips!

If you do "guix shell -D guix --pure", you are using --pure, and 
consequently "guix git authenticate" and "make authenticate" will fail, 
contrary to what you seem to want.

My proposal was:

> I suppose removing --pure (from the manual) might solve this problem.
> However, --pure appears to have been added for a reason
> (commit 43ec98ef3025f67ff4f66b7da0bcb79a6f088042), so I expect the solution is to rephrase things somehow (maybe something about running "guix git authenticate" outside "guix shell -D guix"). 

Greetings,
Maxime.