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From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Subject: Re: Installing guix from Git
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:11:23 +0200
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes:

 > Yes, probably (this is not a problem when it=E2=80=99s used in a bui=
ld
 > environment, because everything is under /nix/store anyway.)

Right. And in a user environment, it is quite useful to be able to
link to impure libraries, so perhaps the best solution is to
make this the default (not sure though), or at least discuss the
environment variable in the documentation.

Konrad