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


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:59:32 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1

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

-- 
Ricardo




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