Ludovic Courtès writes: > ... > > The name that “guix package -s” shows is the package name. > ‘gnu-gettext’, conversely, is the name of the variable bound to that > package. > > In your config file, you can use ‘specifications->manifest’ as > documented in the manual if you’d rather avoid dealing with variables. > > ... Thank you for pointing this out. I have reread the relevant section of "4.2 Invoking ‘guix package’" of the manual. I have recently started using it in user manifests. I will try using this further.