Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludo, the patch looks good to me.  However, many ibus input methods
> are not provided by the ibus package itself, so for ibus-anthy or
> ibus-libpinyin we would need a different mechanism.

Right.

> Would it make sense to introduce another environment variable
> (e.g. GUIX_IBUS_COMPONENTS_PATH) that specifies a search path on 
> which components are looked up?  I feel that this partially defeats
> the purpose of having a cache, so perhaps this is nonsensical.

That makes sense to me.

Attached is a variant of the previous patch that supports
GUIX_IBUS_COMPONENTS_DIRECTORY (not PATH because… it’s complicated).
It would be set to $HOME/.guix-profile/libexec.

We then need to modify the XML files of ibus-anthy, ibus-libpinyin,
etc. so that their <exec> tags use relative file names.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

PS: IBus still builds with the patch, but that’s all I can say.  :-)