Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> If you or the
> author of inxi are willing to learn more about this,

I hope you did not think I was on the inxi's maintainer's side!  :p

I understand and agree with all your points.

>> If anyone wants to chime in and try to convince the maintainer...
>
> Since you're the inxi user, I'll leave that to you.  I hope I've helped
> by giving enough information to clarify why GuixSD departs from the FHS,
> and why inxi ought to let its users tell it where its dependencies live.

Considering the maintainer's latest comments, I don't think he/she is
open to discussion.

It's too bad because I do not know any good alternative to inxi.  Maybe
it's time to solve this conky/i3status/inxi mess and roll out a
Lisp-programmable/extensible monitor/reporter.  What do you people think?

>> Otherwise we will have to go ahead and patch inxi.
>
> That is always an option.  We do it all the time, so it's nothing new.

I'll go ahead then.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

Nonsense.  Space is blue and birds fly through it.
		-- Heisenberg