Dear Guix experts, I am seeing inconsistent behavior with the creation of symbolic links in containers and exports, and I wonder whether this is a bug or missing documentation.
According to the documentation, there are no constraints on what I can link to. In practice, some symbolic link requests have no effect, but there is no error message either. Example: I am trying to tell programs in a container to use the certificates from package nss-certs, instead of requiring the user to share /etc/ssl from the host machine. So I add -S /etc/ssl=etc/ssl to my command lines for "guix shell -C" and "guix pack" (for creating Docker or Singularity images. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. With "guix shell", I never got it to work. With "guix pack", the observed behavior is random. Adding a completely unrelated package to my container can make the difference. Can someone shed some light on this? Cheers, Konrad
