From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
To: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can I easily install GNU Emacs 27.1.50 via Guix?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:44:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnxf75s9.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736034fsk.fsf@zancanaro.id.au>
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Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au> writes:
> One may argue that the system is functioning correctly, and this is an
> unfortunate consequence of the way that Guix works. I would still
> consider the faulty behaviour a bug - even if it is a result of
> intentional decisions made in Guix's design. Running evince (i.e.
> /usr/bin/evince) is failing because of an environment variable that
> Guix's wrapper sets for emacs. That environment variable is propagated
> to child processes (as environment variables are), and in this
> instance that causes the child process to misbehave. This is a bug
> caused by Guix's wrapping of emacs.
In practical terms: You would expect Guix to rename the environment
variable and also patch all guix-installed programs so that they use the
renamed variable without affecting any non-Guix-Program?
Best wishes,
Arne
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-18 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 16:46 Can I easily install GNU Emacs 27.1.50 via Guix? Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-12-09 20:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-10 12:40 ` zimoun
2020-12-17 22:54 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-12-17 22:59 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-12-18 2:05 ` zimoun
2020-12-18 4:03 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 9:00 ` zimoun
2020-12-18 9:36 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 10:38 ` zimoun
2020-12-18 11:37 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 13:59 ` zimoun
2020-12-19 0:17 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 10:44 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2020-12-18 12:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-12-18 14:05 ` zimoun
2020-12-18 15:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-18 15:09 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-12-18 23:17 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-12-18 9:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-12-10 12:27 ` zimoun
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