Kyle Meyer writes: > Ah, sorry, I should have tested that with --pure. Indeed you'll need to > pull in other packages if they're not already on your system. [...]
Here's the minimum set of packages I needed with --pure: $ guix shell --pure \ coreutils diffutils emacs-minimal glibc git grep make sed tar texinfo texlive \ -- make doc (Note: texlive is large, so that will take some time if you don't already have it in your store.)