I've been using guixSD on this computer for nearly a year now, but in
attempting to do nearly anything with guix i feel very stupid and
hopelessly frustrated because there is ALMOST information about things
but not really.

where is the source code for guix?

why, if I do 'guix shell guix' do i have a hard time finding the source
code for guix? Surely there should be some pointer to the location of
the source tree, if the source tree is a thing that is important to
understand. I would quite like to read the source.

when I issue 'guix package -show=guix' among the information presented
is a "location" for the package description.

i have assumed that the sources for the various packages live in
/gnu/store/ but the store is not really searchable by normal shell tools
like 'find'. It takes a very long time, and the results are unweildy to
work with.

Surely the GNU System should be proud of the fact that it hosts its own
sources and those of installed packages. Why are these sources made so
hard to find?

Why isn't there just a top-level directory that either holds the sources
or is a link to them?

How can I hope to contribute or even understand this software when just
trying to FIND the local sources necessitates a call for help? What can
I do?

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