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From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Subject: Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:44:00 +0530
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To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:
>> George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I tried to use 'guix environment' to check out znc this way ...
>>>
>>> guix environment --ad-hoc znc -- emacs -nw
>>>
>>> the znc man is unavailable ...
>>
>> I have been wondering the same. It would be nice if at least the man and
>> info documentation was available somehow. What needs to be done in this
>> regard?
>
> If you want to use 'man', include the man-db package in your
> environment. If you want to use 'info', include the info-reader
> package (I think).
>
> To be more general, there isn't any "magic" here.  The znc package
> includes man pages in its output directory, but 'man' won't know about
> it unless it's on $MANPATH.  In order to make Guix set the proper
> MANPATH, you need to include man-db because that package is the one
> that defines the native search path for MANPATH.

This makes sense. I also verified it, and it works for me. Thanks!