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| author | Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> | 2023-03-30 22:42:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> | 2023-08-25 15:16:19 +0200 |
| commit | 9f68a2a9c41166ec5ac24c082bcd96c433dd2ede (patch) | |
| tree | 387f7d69613e6361c35a3eb1a5a75c1ea56ae33e | |
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doc: Note that `guix shell` should contain base language packages.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix shell): Explain that python must be included in
the invocation even if it is already available in the external environment.
Suggested-by: Skyler <skyvine@protonmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index c60e0b87b2..6105195bd9 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Domagoj Stolfa@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Hui Lu@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021 pukkamustard@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Alice Brenon@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2021, 2022 Josselin Poiret@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2021-2023 Josselin Poiret@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021, 2023 muradm@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021, 2022 Andrew Tropin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Sarah Morgensen@* @@ -6271,6 +6271,14 @@ building or downloading any missing package, and runs the guix shell python python-numpy -- python3 @end example +Note that it is necessary to include the main @code{python} package in +this command even if it is already installed into your environment. +This is so that the shell environment knows to set @env{PYTHONPATH} and +other related variables. The shell environment cannot check the +previously installed environment, because then it would be +non-deterministic. This is true for most libraries: their corresponding +language package should be included in the shell invocation. + @quotation Note @cindex shebang, for @command{guix shell} @command{guix shell} can be also be used as a script interpreter, also |