Re: offlineimap

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 12:14:36PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 11:09:34 +0200
>> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>> > 
>> >  [...]  
>> > 
>> > I’ve been using the sqlite backend for a while myself and it’s really
>> > quite nice.
>> > 
>> > Does this dependency really need to be propagated, though?  Or could we
>> > wrap the “offlineimap” executable in a suitable PYTHONPATH instead?
>> > 
>> > ~~ Ricardo
>> 
>> From my understanding it needs to "be available", which in FHS terms means be
>> installed, but I assume wrapping the offlineimap executable would work, and
>> without propagating more programs into the user's profile.
>> 
>
> I think I've gotten it right with the PYTHONPATH, this is my first time
> tring it that way. Here's the output of `guix gc --references`:
> $guix gc --referencesi /gnu/store/z1i4vkk8zpxszkavx5dmaq11lvkspp9y-offlineimap-6.7.0
> /gnu/store/b1yqjimbdh5bf9jnizd4h7yf110744j2-bash-4.3.42
> /gnu/store/kcc3cxnx9l2hbg7pjhxsa0r5yq2j2f38-python-2.7.10
> /gnu/store/pdhx76bbawkwrlqql2yglcl91bi5yrrc-python2-pysqlite-2.8.1
> /gnu/store/z1i4vkk8zpxszkavx5dmaq11lvkspp9y-offlineimap-6.7.0

The patch looks okay to me.  If you have confirmed that it works without
haviing the pysqlite package installed in the profile and without having
set PYTHONPATH then it’s good to push.

Thanks!

~~ Ricardo