Subject: bug#61885: `guix import go` fails outside of pre-inst-env

From: Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:04:54 +0100

Hi again,

Winter <[email-masked]> writes:

> In addition to those, I wonder why `guix build` shows that the cyclic package can't be found, rather than throwing an error as `guix import` does. Maybe it's worth fixing that, if possible, to not cause (worse) confusion?

This is because you should be trying to build
[email-masked]`, not `go-github-com-robfig-cron-1.2`!

`guix build` takes specifications, not Guile variable names.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret