Re: Is there a beginner's guide to using Guix with Scheme files?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Zachary Kanfer <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, this is *exactly* what I was looking for. Thanks incredibly.
>
> It took me a while to realize that the package module for racket was
> "scheme". I figured this out after getting an error with "racket", and then
> looking at the "location" field of the output of `guix package -s racket`.
> I assume the package module for any package is the last token in
> "gnu/modules/<package-here>.scm? Are there packages not rooted in
> "gnu/modules"?

All package modules can be found at “gnu/packages/”.  A package is just
a value bound to a name, so a single module can hold one or many
packages.  An example for a module with a great number of packages is
“gnu/packages/python.scm”.

~~ Ricardo