> I think that's because it doesn't know what do you want to do with ncurses. > > If you do something like: > > ``` > guix shell ncurses gcc-toolchain > ``` > > (or clang-toolchain) > > It should know that you want to compile things, and add the compilers > will have access to courses. > > Same thing happens with the man pages. If you don't add `man-db` to the > shell, you cannot use the manual for the tools you installed in the shell. > > Hope this helps. Give it a try and let me know. > > Best, > Ekaitz
Thank you, it works! However, it is not clear to me whether this method is correct by design. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems better to be able to explicitly specify for guix the option to add all environment variables that are affected by the package. Daniil Rozanov
