From: George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:42:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86po5snmv4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfbzrJaENyq4KSeYP5v7Ddz-pu3BXG0_y5LgGuAtBbt-PA@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/30/2018 at 01:16 Thompson writes:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:47 PM, <myglc2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So 'guix package -i znc' implicitly adds man-db and info-reader.
>>
>> Maybe 'guix environment --add-hoc znc' should do that too?
>
> Sorry, that's not quite right. Running 'guix package -i znc' will
> install znc and *nothing* else. Only by additionally installing man-db
> to your profile will you have MANPATH configured properly. 'guix
> package' and 'guix environment' are consistent with each other since
> they both use the same underlying profile management code.
>
> Hope this clears things up further,
>
> - Dave
Gee, that's not what I see here. I did 'guix package -i znc' and 'man
znc' become immediately available in all my sessions and man-db is not
in my profile ...
g1@g1 ~$ guix package -I | grep man-db
g1@g1 ~$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.1050-2cdf1
BTW, I'm running GuixSD.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-30 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-29 19:00 How do I check out a package w/o installing it? George myglc2 Clemmer
2018-01-29 19:20 ` Arun Isaac
2018-01-29 20:46 ` Thompson, David
2018-01-30 0:47 ` myglc2
2018-01-30 1:16 ` Thompson, David
2018-01-30 1:42 ` George myglc2 Clemmer [this message]
2018-01-30 2:34 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-01-31 5:14 ` Arun Isaac
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