From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Dealing with environment settings on a non-Guix distribution
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:01:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170210090122.GA30408@mail.thebird.nl> (raw)
Dear Ricardo,
@FOSDEM one thing came up that we ought to make it easier to handle
environment settings (shell variables). Yesterday, I had to help
somenone use R and install some packages in $HOME. This proved quite
hairy. Mostly because we needed to tell R about certificates in
/etc/ssl, change the native download from curl to wget, and to tell R
about library paths for dependencies on openssl, for example. Not
something you'd like a non-guixer try to figure out.
For Ruby I created a script in
https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/scripts/ruby-guix-env
(actually it is out of date, I also deal with certificates).
I think we can have more of these 'environment' managing scripts. Can
we somehow get them into Guix? Maybe create a separate package for
each of them - say ruby-guix-env and r-guix-env? It would help
bootstrap people using Guix for R, ruby and other languages.
Pj.
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2017-02-10 9:01 Pjotr Prins [this message]
2017-02-10 9:37 ` Dealing with environment settings on a non-Guix distribution Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-10 10:07 ` Pjotr Prins
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