Hi, On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 02:32, John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> So I think it is just that you didn't have the "consumer" of the > search-path, the package info-reader, in the profile. That seems like > the expected functionality of search-path but maybe I'm missing > something? Not closing in case it is me not you :) Aah… yes! Thanks. Well, I have various profiles, for instance, coreutils is in one profile and info-reader is in another. That’s why it appears to me unexpected. > (as an aside, I never remember the package for the same thing with > man...) That’s man-db. :-) Well I am closing as ’notabug’; although when using Guix as environment manager on foreign distro in some scientific context, it means that I have to pass info-reader and man-db to all my profiles around when working on some specific project. Cheers, simon
