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Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 04:57:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Carlos,
address@hidden (Carlos Sánchez de La Lama) skribis:
> Hi Ludo, Alex,
>
>> In the example Alex gave, none of the two profiles specifies
>> GUILE_LOAD_PATH if taken individually. This example is also in the
>> manual to illustrate the use of multiple -p flags with --search-paths
>> (info "(guix) Invoking guix package").
>
> I think I understood now. I knew "guix --search-paths" only returned
> those search paths which *do exist* in the current profile (thus the
> need for multiple -p parameters), but I (wrongly) thought search paths
> were added unconditionally to <profile_root>/etc/profile.
>
> Making this work would need two things:
> 1) not stripping unexisting directories from search paths
> 2) constructing environment variables prepending every profile root to
> the search paths of each profile.
>
> And my suggestion only solved point 2.
>
> Now, my question is, why are unexisting search paths removed?
I don’t think this is really the problem here. The problem here is that
if a profile contains only, say, guile-json, there is no way Guix can
know about GUILE_LOAD_PATH because that variable is associated with
Guile itself, not with guile-json.
Does that make sense?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories, Carlos Sánchez de La Lama, 2016/09/14
- Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/14
- Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories, Carlos Sánchez de La Lama, 2016/09/20
- Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories, Alex Kost, 2016/09/20
- Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories, Carlos Sánchez de La Lama, 2016/09/20
- Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/21
- Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories, Carlos Sánchez de La Lama, 2016/09/22
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