Installing guile-imanifest in Profile Causes Problems with Guix

Christopher Rodriguez wrote on 22 Jul 2023 04:59

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Hello All,

I have recently tried to expand my use and knowledge of guile libraries,

and in doing so came across guile-imanifest, which is meant to be a

library to create guix manifests interactively. However, upon installing

it in my guix-home profile, I found that it propagates the guix package…

which then shadows ~/.config/guix/current/bin/guix and thus causes

problems for the end user going forward.

I've since removed it from my profile, but I wanted to report it as a

bug in case this was not expected behavior: I could conceive of a user,

excited to learn more about using guile and guix together, installing

the library and then thinking that their guix installation is broken

because nothing works after it.

If it isn't intended, I can submit a patch. If it is intended, perhaps a

note in the description might be warranted about this package causing

problems with guix if installed in a profile? Happy to submit a patch

there too.

What do You think?

Christopher Rodriguez

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