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To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:16:59PM +0200, Catonano wrote:
> There are only 2 profiles on this machine: mine and root's profile
> 
> As for mine, I eliminated ALL previous generations and emacs-cider is not
> installed in the current one
> 
> As for root's profile:
> 
> $ guix package -p root --list-installed
> 
> returns nothing
> 
> 
> and
> $ guix package -p root --list-generations
> guix package: error: profile 'root' does not exist

I think the argument to '-p' is the generation of the profile (an
integer). You should try running it as root, since I doubt you can read
root's profiles as an unprivileged user.