On 01/30/2018 at 01:16 Thompson writes: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:47 PM, <myg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So 'guix package -i znc' implicitly adds man-db and info-reader. >> >> Maybe 'guix environment --add-hoc znc' should do that too? > > Sorry, that's not quite right. Running 'guix package -i znc' will > install znc and *nothing* else. Only by additionally installing man-db > to your profile will you have MANPATH configured properly. 'guix > package' and 'guix environment' are consistent with each other since > they both use the same underlying profile management code. > > Hope this clears things up further, > > - Dave
Gee, that's not what I see here. I did 'guix package -i znc' and 'man znc' become immediately available in all my sessions and man-db is not in my profile ... g1@g1 ~$ guix package -I | grep man-db g1@g1 ~$ guix --version guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.1050-2cdf1 BTW, I'm running GuixSD.