Hi Skyler, It's a shame that nobody had pointed out this (quite common) missing piece earlier.
Skyler via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes: > In spite of being reasonable, it is not particularly intuitive. Could I > recommend an addition to the manual in section "7.1 Invoking guix-shell", > adding text like the below after the example invocation `guix shell python > python-numpy -- python3`? > > "Note that it is necessary to include the main python package in this command > even if it is already installed into your environment. This is so that the > shell environment knows to set PYTHONPATH and other related variables. The > shell environment cannot check the previously installed environment, because > then it would be non-deterministic." Yes, this would be a good idea. I can try to do this right now. Best, -- Josselin Poiret
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