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[bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:39:29 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> skribis:
> I think there are too many examples to exhaustively list them all, but
> to give an example, [1, 2, 3, 4] are all the same bug and in [2] Carlo
> said we should document this under "Application Setup". My personal
> stance is that the Guix behaviour is not a bug and other distros are
> weird for not explicitly binding it.
How about focusing specifically on XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is the root
cause of the first two bugs you mention?
We could say that installing certain packages will cause
~/.guix-profile/etc/profile to define XDG_DATA_DIRS, that this can
interfere with software installed outside Guix, such as GNOME, and that
we recommend unsetting XDG_DATA_DIRS (is that what we recommend?
breaking Guix-installed packages instead of breaking distro-installed
packages?)?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
> [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/26202
> [2] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45360
> [3] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48300
> [4] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53379
- [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful, Liliana Marie Prikler, 2022/01/22
- [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/01/22
- [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful, Liliana Marie Prikler, 2022/01/22
- [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful, Maxim Cournoyer, 2022/01/24
- [bug#53447] Introducing ‘GUIX_’-prefixed environment variables, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/01/25
- [bug#53447] Introducing ‘GUIX_’-prefixed environment variables, Maxim Cournoyer, 2022/01/25
- [bug#53447] Introducing ‘GUIX_’-prefixed environment variables, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/01/26
- [bug#53447] Introducing ‘GUIX_’-prefixed environment variables, Liliana Marie Prikler, 2022/01/26
- [bug#53447] Introducing ‘GUIX_’-prefixed environment variables, Maxim Cournoyer, 2022/01/26
- [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful, Liliana Marie Prikler, 2022/01/25