Re: Small change request to the manual page "Building from Git"

[Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>]

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On 10-10-2022 16:18, Mehmet Tekman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> Try "guix environment guix --pure guix" or "guix shell guix -D guix" instead.
> 
> Yes I understand, but the manual states that:
> 
>> The following command starts a new shell **where all the dependencies and appropriate environment variables are set up to hack on Guix**:
>> guix environment guix --pure

You are reading an old version of the manual, the latest version 
mentions "guix shell -D guix --pure".

> This gives the impression that everything needed for `make
> authenticate' to work is included in the above command (and I guess it
> would be on the native distro).
>
 > I think a small sentence mentioning the extra Guix dependency for
 > non-native users isn't completely unwarranted, or perhaps maybe a hint
 > in the linked "invoking guix environment" page?

As I wrote previously, foreign system / Guix System makes no difference 
-- in both cases, --pure changes the PATH, and not doing --pure should 
get you the 'guix' from ~/.guix-profile/bin/guix if Guix is set up
previously.

I suppose removing --pure (from the manual) might solve this problem.
However, --pure appears to have been added for a reason
(commit 43ec98ef3025f67ff4f66b7da0bcb79a6f088042), so I expect the 
solution is to rephrase things somehow (maybe something about running 
"guix git authenticate" outside "guix shell -D guix").
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 at 11:08, Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:
 > [lots of text]

You seemed to have duplicated the previous mail here, but most e-mail 
clients keep the previous mails available, so there's no need.  Not 
top-posting also saves a little time for the reader.

Greetings,
Maxime;.

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