On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:08:40 -0800
Keith Osterheld <keitho@openmailbox.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How does the configuration system handle references to packages that
> aren't installed? For example, if I add (use-package-modules xfce) to my config file
> but I don't have xfce installed, will guix automatically install it, or
> will it throw errors?
> 
> Keith
> 

If you don't add (use-package-modules xfce) at the top of your config and you
don't use it in (packages ...) then it won't be added.

On the other hand, if you added had (packages (cons* xfce ...)) but didn't
have (use-package-modules xfce) then it would throw an error.

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