Re: Minimal list of packages for `guix shell` for documentation compilation?

[Kyle Meyer]

Kyle Meyer writes:

> Ah, sorry, I should have tested that with --pure.  Indeed you'll need to
> pull in other packages if they're not already on your system.  [...]

Here's the minimum set of packages I needed with --pure:

 $ guix shell --pure \
   coreutils diffutils emacs-minimal glibc git grep make sed tar texinfo 
texlive \
   -- make doc

(Note: texlive is large, so that will take some time if you don't
already have it in your store.)