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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the =?utf-8?Q?user=E2=80=99s?=
	default profile."?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:59:32 +0200
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George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:

> Oops, I left out the back quotes. I mean ...
>
> eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p PROFILE
> --search-paths=exact`
>
> ... because I understand the doc to say this will give the "_combined_
> search paths" of the two profiles. But I am disappointed that ...
>
> guix package -p znc -i znc
> eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p znc --search-paths`
>
> ... provides znc but no system packages. What am I misunderstanding now?

I replied earlier that the path to your system profile is incomplete.
It should be 

    /var/guix/profiles/system/profile

but you wrote

    /var/guix/profiles/system

-- 
Ricardo