"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> > wrote: >> George myglc2 Clemmer <myg...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> I tried to use 'guix environment' to check out znc this way ... >>> >>> guix environment --ad-hoc znc -- emacs -nw >>> >>> the znc man is unavailable ... >> >> I have been wondering the same. It would be nice if at least the man and >> info documentation was available somehow. What needs to be done in this >> regard? > > If you want to use 'man', include the man-db package in your > environment. If you want to use 'info', include the info-reader > package (I think). > > To be more general, there isn't any "magic" here. The znc package > includes man pages in its output directory, but 'man' won't know about > it unless it's on $MANPATH. In order to make Guix set the proper > MANPATH, you need to include man-db because that package is the one > that defines the native search path for MANPATH.
This makes sense. I also verified it, and it works for me. Thanks!
