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Inconsistent guile enviornment from guix shell

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Message #25 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>,
 Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>, Skyler <skyvine <at> protonmail.com>,
 62448 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62448: [PATCH] doc: Note that `guix shell` should contain
 base language packages.
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:07:33 +0200

Hi,

On jeu., 30 mars 2023 at 22:42, Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> +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.

Nitpick: Missing double space for sentences.

Otherwise, LGTM.


Cheers,
simon

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