Yes, this is *exactly* what I was looking for. Thanks incredibly.

It took me a while to realize that the package module for racket was
"scheme". I figured this out after getting an error with "racket", and then
looking at the "location" field of the output of `guix package -s racket`.
I assume the package module for any package is the last token in
"gnu/modules/<package-here>.scm? Are there packages not rooted in
"gnu/modules"?

Is there more documentation on manifest files? It would be really helpful
to, for example, be able to see the definition of `use-package-modules` or
`packages->manifest`. Is this information I can access in Emacs through
geiser? Or perhaps a webpage with more such information? Thanks.


On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I recently installed Guix, and I must admit I'm feeling somewhat lost. My
> > goal is to not run `guix package -i` manually, but have a scheme file
> with
> > my entire system configuration in it, and run `guix package -f
> > /path/to/that/file` to install the programs I want on my computer.
>
> I think you’re looking for ‘--manifest’ rather than ‘-f’:
>
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#profile_002dmanifest
>
> That probably explains why the rest of the documentation you looked at
> felt inappropriate.  :-)
>
> HTH,
> Ludo’.
>