From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Trying to fix IBus Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 07:50:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9ardfb4.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87lh04covy.fsf@elephly.net> <1470868544.1137824.691893225.14A41376@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXitc-0005AH-4i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:51:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXitX-0004Gi-6t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:51:12 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXitW-0004Gd-M3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:51:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <1470868544.1137824.691893225.14A41376@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Griffin Cc: guix-devel Alex Griffin 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