On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:29:35PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote:
> I installed the package `transmission-remote-cli` in my profile with
> `guix package -i transmission-remote-cli`. But, the executable
> `transmission-remote-cli` is not symlinked into
> ~/.guix-profile/bin/.
> 
> I have noticed similar problems in some other packages as well. How does
> guix decide which executables to symlink into bin? Are these bugs in the
> packages themselves?

Hi, thanks for the report!

I can't reproduce the bug. Can you give the output of `guix --version`?

And, can you try something like what I've shown below?

From a recent `guix pull` here is what I see when I check my Guix
version, inspect the built output of the package, install the package,
and then check the installed package binary's absolute path:

$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 20160822.06
Copyright (C) 2016 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$ tree -a $(guix build transmission-remote-cli)
/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1
├── bin
│   ├── transmission-remote-cli -> /gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1/bin/.transmission-remote-cli-wrap-01
│   ├── .transmission-remote-cli-real
│   └── .transmission-remote-cli-wrap-01
├── etc
│   └── bash_completion.d
│       └── transmission-remote-cli-bash-completion.sh
└── share
    └── man
        └── man1
            └── transmission-remote-cli.1.gz

6 directories, 5 files
$ guix package -i transmission-remote-cli && which transmission-remote-cli && realpath $(which transmission-remote-cli)
The following package will be installed:
   transmission-remote-cli	1.7.1	/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1

57 packages in profile
The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
   export PATH="/home/leo/.guix-profile/bin:/home/leo/.guix-profile/sbin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
   export TERMINFO_DIRS="/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/terminfo${TERMINFO_DIRS:+:}$TERMINFO_DIRS"
   export INFOPATH="/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
   export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH"
   export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="/home/leo/.guix-profile/lib/guile/2.0/ccache:/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0${GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH"
/home/leo/.guix-profile/bin/transmission-remote-cli
/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1/bin/.transmission-remote-cli-wrap-01