Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Carlos,

csanchezdll@gmail.com (Carlos Sánchez de La Lama) skribis:

> Hi Ludo, Alex,
>
>> In the example Alex gave, none of the two profiles specifies
>> GUILE_LOAD_PATH if taken individually.  This example is also in the
>> manual to illustrate the use of multiple -p flags with --search-paths
>> (info "(guix) Invoking guix package").
>
> I think I understood now. I knew "guix --search-paths" only returned
> those search paths which *do exist* in the current profile (thus the
> need for multiple -p parameters), but I (wrongly) thought search paths
> were added unconditionally to <profile_root>/etc/profile.
>
> Making this work would need two things:
> 1) not stripping unexisting directories from search paths
> 2) constructing environment variables prepending every profile root to
>    the search paths of each profile.
>
> And my suggestion only solved point 2.
>
> Now, my question is, why are unexisting search paths removed?

I don’t think this is really the problem here.  The problem here is that
if a profile contains only, say, guile-json, there is no way Guix can
know about GUILE_LOAD_PATH because that variable is associated with
Guile itself, not with guile-json.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
Ludo’.