From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:16:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86r2q8o5hj.fsf@gmail.com> <86tvv4w4sy.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33129) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egKXQ-00029A-8Q for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:16:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egKXP-0000PQ-HO for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:16:40 -0500 Received: from mail-vk0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::22f]:42309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egKXP-0000Ou-BZ for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:16:39 -0500 Received: by mail-vk0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id t4so5775180vkb.9 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:16:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <86tvv4w4sy.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: myglc2 Cc: help-guix On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:47 PM, wrote: > > So 'guix package -i znc' implicitly adds man-db and info-reader. > > Maybe 'guix environment --add-hoc znc' should do that too? Sorry, that's not quite right. Running 'guix package -i znc' will install znc and *nothing* else. Only by additionally installing man-db to your profile will you have MANPATH configured properly. 'guix package' and 'guix environment' are consistent with each other since they both use the same underlying profile management code. Hope this clears things up further, - Dave