[bug#39146] [PATCH v2] gnu: icecat: Remove compiler paths from about:buildconfig

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>]

Jakub, all,

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:38 PM, Jakub =?UTF-8?b?S8SFZHppb8WCa2E=?= 
<kuba@kadziolka.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 09:53:48PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>>  I like the approach of Tobias' proposed patch, but to avoid losing
>>  information (most of the hash), how about changing:
>> 
>>    (string-append store (string-take hash 8) "…")
>> 
>>  to something like:
>> 
>>    (string-append store (string-take hash 2) "." (string-drop hash 
>> 2))
>> 
>>  What do you think?  Anyway, I don't feel strongly about it, and I
>>  acknowledge that neither approach is perfect.
> I feel like the unicode character "…" makes it much more clear that 
> the
> path has been modified, but it's a moot point considering that if
> someone might get confused by this, they probably won't be able to 
> make
> use of the hash.
> 
> However, now that I come back to this after some time, I realize that
> there is another solution:
> 
>     (string-append store (string-take hash 8) "<span></span>"
>                          (string-drop hash 8))
> 
> This would neuter the reference without having any user-visible 
> impact on
> about:buildconfig. What do you think?

The truncation of these very long paths was fully intended as a 
feature, but if people do think they're actually useful I think this is 
a clever hack worthy of Guix :-)

Have you tested whether copying & pasting still works fine with this?

Kind regards,

T G-R, adrift without mu4e