From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: youtube-dl: Add native-search-paths. Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 05:16:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87vb83kmph.fsf@elephly.net> References: 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]:36430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7y58-0001Wk-AX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:16:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7y55-0007HV-5S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:16:22 -0500 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:25850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7y54-0007HR-SV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:16:19 -0500 In-reply-to: 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Alex Vong writes: > I notice youtube-dl comes with a man page, bash completion file and > fish completion file. However, since it is located in a very werid > path, the programs normally wouldn't find it. So, I add > native-search-paths. Would it not be better to patch the build system such that the files are installed in the expected locations? I don’t like to have to needlessly set environment variables for programmes to work. ~~ Ricardo