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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: 37790@debbugs.gnu.org,
	Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>,
	Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 37790-close@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 09:32:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ3Z0YgLfX6mDKkc+-VzYFqmTaBfKVwGRMLXEAfOffVqCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y21rimdg.fsf@gmail.com>

Hi Maxim,

On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 07:26, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> tags 37790 notabug

From my understanding, it is a "bug" as explained here:

1: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/37790#2>

Or at least an inconvenient behaviour. :-)


> >> I agree it’s inconvenient, but how would you add an exception?
> >
> > I'm not too sure how Guix works here, but what about when building the
> > profile, systematically populating etc/profile with MANPATH=...?
>
> I don't think special casing ~/.guix-profile like this, polluting other
> profiles is a good idea.

It appears to me the contrary, no?  That ~/.guix-profile is special here.

Well, using a multi-profiles style management, it appears to me
adequate to install "man" (or man-db) once, i.e.,  in one profile say
~/.cache/guix/profiles/utilities, and then install other packages, say
git, in another profile, say ~/, .cache/guix/profiles/tools, etc.

With the current design, each profile other than ~/.guix-profile
requires 'man-db' which seems unfortunate, non?


Cheers,
simon




  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-03  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-17 12:58 bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-17 14:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-17 15:11   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-17 16:17     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-18  8:20       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2022-03-03  6:24         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-03-03  8:32           ` zimoun [this message]
2022-03-03 14:04             ` Maxim Cournoyer

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