From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "André Alexandre Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xlockmore man pages
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:44:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rfof6qf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1o8siol.fsf@gmail.com> ("André Alexandre Gomes"'s message of "Wed, 02 Dec 2020 11:42:18 +0300")
Hi!
André Alexandre Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> skribis:
> First of all, thank you, I'm a happy user :)
Thanks for the kind words. :-)
> I noticed that xlockmore exists in my /gnu/store, since it's part of
> %desktop-services. When I look at all packages installed in the system
> (M-x guix-installed-system-packages), it's not there. I think this is
> the reason why I can't access the man pages of xlockmore without
> installing it on my user profile.
Xlockmore is installed as a setuid program, you can see it under
/run/setuid-programs. Consequently, it does not show up in the “system
profile”, /run/current-system/profile, which is why M-x
guix-installed-system-packages does not show it.
> I had a similar experience with xorg-server---again not listed in
> the system packages.
This is a similar story: Xorg is available on your machine for use by
the Xorg service, but it’s not available in the system profile.
> My questions:
>
> - is this is "bug or a feature"?
Feature? :-) Namely, not all the packages “in use” by various parts of
the system need to be in a profile.
> - are there other more "comfortable" ways to access the man pages of
> such packages?
You can always do things like:
guix environment --ad-hoc man-db xorg-server -- man Xorg
HTH!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-17 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-02 8:42 xlockmore man pages André Alexandre Gomes
2020-12-17 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-12-20 22:27 ` Joshua Branson
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