[PATCH 0/2] Improve search path handling?

[David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

While hacking on Ruby stuff, I noticed that executable files in Ruby
gems aren't installed in 'bin', but rather 'lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/bin'.
In order to make these executables "just work", I decided to add a
search path specification for $PATH to the ruby package.  That's when I
noticed an issue: 'guix package --search-paths' would have me clobber
the $PATH I had already configured to use my profile.

    export PATH="/home/dave/.guix-profile/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/bin"

To solve this, two things need to happen: A default $PATH with 'bin' and
'sbin' needs to be included, and search path specifications that have
the same variable name need to be merged.

The merge is necessary to avoid a situation like this:

    export PATH="/home/dave/.guix-profile/bin:/home/dave/.guix-profile/sbin"
    export PATH="/home/dave/.guix-profile/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/bin"

I also tweaked 'guix environment' to use the base search paths, which it
was already doing, but via a hardcoded search path specification.

Or maybe this is all silly and I'm doing it wrong!  You decide!

Thanks in advance for the patch review.

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David Thompson
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