hot12shots <hot12shots@gmail.com> wrote:
>     guix package --search-paths=prefix \
>                  -p /run/current-system/profile  \
>                  -p ~/.config/guix/current       \
>                  -p ~/.guix-profile              \
>                  -p $GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES/abc/abc \
>                  -p $GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES/xyz/zyz
>                  # etc.
>
> This properly sets the manpath etc., as the consuming packages (man-db and friends) are present in the included "built-in" profiles (first 3 `-p` arguments listed above).

Ha!  Nice trick, thanks.  Alas, it wonʼt help much on top of foreign distribution, where they often are not.

> The only caveat I'm aware of is that the multiple `guix` invocations aren't instantaneous, so one might not want to use this if sourcing their .profile from .bashrc or equivalent, as it would add some init time to every shell invocation.

But one should never source profiles from ~/.bashrc in any case!  They are supposed to sourced by login shell only.  In other words, there is ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile) for that.