[bug#64765] [PATCH] gnu: home: zsh: Also load enviroment in non-login shells

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Saku Laesvuori <saku@laesvuori.fi> skribis:

>> > * gnu/home/services/shells.scm (zsh-file-zshenv): Add snippet to source
>> > profiles.
>> > (zsh-file-zprofile): Remove profile sourcing snippet.
>> > (zsh-get-configuration-files): Always add .zshenv as it is never empty.
>> > Check that .zprofile is not empty before adding it.
>> > ---
>> > The service incorrectly assumed that shells are either login shells or
>> > started from another shell. For example, ssh with a command argument
>> > starts shells that aren't login shells nor started from another shell.
>> 
>> Hello, this looks reasonable to me, only one question:
>> Will ~/.guix-home/profile/etc/profile be sourced multiple times with
>> duplicated search-path entries?  (eg: check 'env' in 'zsh' in 'zsh').
>
> Yes, but I don't think it causes any problems aside from adding useless
> data to the environment. This could be prevented by exporting
> GUIX_PROFILE_SOURCED=1 or something similar and only sourcing profiles
> if it isn't set.

I doesn’t sound great though, and I’m sure it could break obscure
things, like #include_next in C.

Is there a way this could be avoided?  (I’m not familiar with Zsh so I’m
not offering to help; just looking for pending patches to apply.  :-))

Thanks,
Ludo’.