Re: Trying to fix IBus

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Alex Griffin <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 04:09 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> What do you think?  Is this acceptable/reasonable?
>
> It seems to me like it's probably fine, for whatever that's worth, and
> also cleaner than the NIX_PROFILES solution. How will this work on
> foreign distros, though?

On foreign distros you would have to use IBus from Guix with GTK from
Guix.  This means that installing IBus from Guix and expecting it to
work with the foreign distro’s applications won’t work.  Likewise you
cannot use the distro’s IBus and use it in applications installed via
Guix.

That’s a general problem — we already experience this with R or Python
(mixing modules installed via different means causes crashes).

~~ Ricardo