Re: Install hook

[Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 11:06 +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On 03/21/2017 09:11 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > 
> > Would you like to give it a try to add a profile hook for building
> > “gschemas.compiled” once for all packages in a given profile?
> > 
> 
> I’ll take a closer look at the code and try it. Since packages are
> shipped as part of Guix anyway, one profile hook in Guix maybe is not
> worse than allowing hooks to be added to e.g. the glib package in this case.
> 
> > Please also email a summary to bug-guix@gnu.org so that we can keep
> > track of this.
> > 
> 
> Will do.
> 

Sorry. I’m feeling a little stupid. GSettings checks each entry in
XDG_DATA_DIRS for a gschemas.compiled file, so compiling the settings
for each package individually does work. The issue with the app I was
trying to run was elsewhere.

Now, all GSettings could still be compiled in a profile hook to a
single gschemas.compiled file to eliminate the annoying warning message
about “arbitrarily choosing” one of them. I have seen an mlet for the
first time today, so I’m not going to fix this. I’m also not sure if
this is really better than what (guix build glib-or-gtk-build-system)
does.

I’m also not going to file a bug since I’m not sure if we even want to
change the current method.