Re: Can't open a container-shell

[Dominic Martinez]

Cássio Tavares <cassio.ufg@gmail.com> writes:

> I have created a profile from the attached `manifest.scm`, meant 
> to be used
> in a container shell, so as to isolate activity X from the 
> everything else.
> After everything was setup, I tried to initiate the shell with 
> this command:
>
> guix shell  -c 4 -M 6 --no-cwd --pure --container --network \
>             --manifest=./etc/manifest.scm                   \
>             --share=./home/sys-conf                         \
>             --user=sys-conf                                 \
>             --profile=./home/sys-conf/.guix-profile         \
>             --preserve='^DISPLAY$'
>
>
> But this doesn't work, and I get this error message:
>
> guix shell: error: "--profile" can't be used with package 
> options

--profile sources an existing guix profile (which is a group of 
 package installations), while --manifest or other package 
 options create a new profile with the defined packages. These 
 two things are contradictory.

Is there a specific reason you included the --profile flag? I 
think you'll probably get the behaviour you imagine without it.

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