xlockmore man pages

xlockmore man pages

[André Alexandre Gomes]

Hi Guix,

First of all, thank you, I'm a happy user :)

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.

I had a similar experience with xorg-server---again not listed in
the system packages.

My questions:

- is this is "bug or a feature"?

- are there other more "comfortable" ways to access the man pages of
such packages?

Notice that packages like elogind (that are only installed on the
system) allow me to access man pages from my user profile.

Thank you.


--
André Alexandre Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"

Re: xlockmore man pages

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.

Re: xlockmore man pages

[Joshua Branson]

Hey Andre,

I believe that is a feature.  Your user cannot access system packages,
because your user profile is separate from the system packages.

Though I do find it surprising that you can access the elogind man
page.  I'm not certain why that is different.

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