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bug#56076: guix shell -P behavior is surprising with persistent home
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#56076: guix shell -P behavior is surprising with persistent home |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:43:46 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
>> > Having to add openssl looks like a bug,
>>
>> It is, but it’s a reasonable solution for the problem at hand.
>
> I don't think it is.
On another distro, you might have to set SSL_CERT_DIR manually. It’s
not that big of a deal, or at least not really worse.
[...]
> My patch <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55297> could be considered a
> work-around, but at least it's automatic for the users, users don't
> need to remember random Guix bug facts.
If we start adding such workarounds, where do we stop? Someone will
want to have similar workarounds for TERMINFO_DIRS; do we add that to
each and every package that uses ncurses? What about GST_PLUGIN_PATH?
So far, we’ve addressed those by special-casing a few key variables in
/etc/profile on Guix System and similarly in the file generated by the
install script on foreign distros.
Maybe we could do the same with SSL_CERT_DIR?
> Ludovic Courtès schreef op ma 27-06-2022 om 09:55 [+0200]:
>> That’s a bit of a hack to work around this venerable bug:
>>
>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/22138
>>
>> :-)
>
> Maybe yes, but there's no progress there
True, but that doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.
I understand your frustration (I really do!) and I agree that sometimes
we need workarounds when there’s no “proper” solution in sight. Our
disagreement is about the kind of workaround in this case; I’m reluctant
to adding search path definitions to users of a library that defines it.
Thanks,
Ludo’.