Bruno,

Bruno Haible wrote:
(Speaking as a user, I'd be annoyed to the point of switching if my distro installed ‘binutils’ when asked for ‘gcc’.)

Well, 'guix install emacs' installs more than emacs as well:
graphviz, ghostscript, python, fftw, cups, ...

Oh, we're talking about different things then.

Installing (in any sense) emacs will add its dependencies to the store (your ‘install’), but doesn't propagate them into the profile (my ‘install’):

 ~ λ guix environment --pure --ad-hoc emacs
 ~ λ dot
 bash: dot: command not found

I tend to avoid the unqualified term ‘install’ on Guix for this reason. Sorry for the confusion!

Kind regards,

T G-R

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