Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

"Thompson, David" writes: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Arun Isaac > wrote: >> George myglc2 Clemmer 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 w

Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

Hello George, George myglc2 Clemmer writes: > On 01/30/2018 at 01:16 Thompson writes: [...] > Gee, that's not what I see here. I did 'guix package -i znc' and 'man > znc' become immediately available in all my sessions and man-db is not > in my profile ... [...] > BTW, I'm running GuixSD.

Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

On 01/30/2018 at 01:16 Thompson writes: > 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 > inst

Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

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 inst

Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

On 01/29/2018 at 15:46 Thompson, David writes: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Arun Isaac > wrote: >> George myglc2 Clemmer 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 ...

Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Arun Isaac wrote: > George myglc2 Clemmer 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

Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

George myglc2 Clemmer 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. Wha

How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

I tried to use 'guix environment' to check out znc this way ... guix environment --ad-hoc znc -- emacs -nw I was disappointed when it produced an environment in which znc is not shown as installed and the znc man is unavailable ... g1@g1 ~ [env]$ which znc /gnu/store/9g32caq0zi10m3mnydq76mkizpn