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Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?


From: George Clemmer
Subject: Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:52:54 -0400
User-agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> George Clemmer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Oops, I left out the back quotes. I mean ...
>>
>> eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p PROFILE
>> --search-paths=exact`
>>
>> ... because I understand the doc to say this will give the "_combined_
>> search paths" of the two profiles. But I am disappointed that ...
>>
>> guix package -p znc -i znc
>> eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p znc --search-paths`
>>
>> ... provides znc but no system packages. What am I misunderstanding now?
>
> I replied earlier that the path to your system profile is incomplete.
> It should be
>
>     /var/guix/profiles/system/profile
>
> but you wrote
>
>     /var/guix/profiles/system

Yes I noticed, thank you. Sorry about the crossed emacs. - George



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