Hi, I think the page you are referercing is meant for developpers or people who want to contribute to guix. It is part of the "Contributing" section after all.
If you go back a few chapters, you'll find the information you need: <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html> the first command will get you a copy of the latest version of the sources. I don't think learning about the source tree structure is valuable unless you want to contribute. If you want to contribute, then you should start from the latest version, not the version that's currently installed on your system. Also, the path you found is valid for any guix installation, not just on the Guix System, except after a fresh install. You need to run guix pull first for that directory to appear. And it's a read-only location. Le 13 juillet 2025 04:27:36 GMT+02:00, [email protected] a écrit : >On 2025-07-13 02:09, [email protected] wrote: >> 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? > >dired seems to indicate that the basename is >~/.config/guix/current/share/guile/site/3.0/guix >the contents of which are symlinks into the relevant files in /gnu/store > >I feel that this information should be included in the page referenced >in subject line, perhaps thus: > >" >On GuixSD systems, the source code of your installed guix is browseable >from your home directory, at /.config/guix/current/share/guile/site/3.0/ >" >
