The other problem is:

im-config include many im's config files and I cannot  let im-config depend all the im,
if fcitx is not installed,  How to deal with "/usr/bin/fcitx" in fcitx config file which is included in im-config?
just replace it with "fcitx"?









At 2017-01-22 09:15:26, "Danny Milosavljevic" <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
>Hi tumashu,
>
>On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 08:57:49 +0800 (CST)
>tumashu <tumashu@163.com> wrote:
>
>> Im-config (https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/im-config.git) is a shell script which
>> used to manager input method by debian, I want to package it to guixsd, but many problem I faced:
>> 
>> 1.  How to deal with "/usr/bin/XXX" in schell script, for example: /usr/bin/fcitx, /usr/bin/ibux ....
>> 2.  How to deal with "
>> /usr/lib/*/qt5/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.
>> "
>
>Please substitute paths by store paths. The intention is to make sure that im-config always keeps doing the same thing every time it is invoked.
>
>To do that you can add a phase by:
>
>(arguments
> `(#:phases
>   (modify-phases %standard-phases
>     (add-after 'unpack 'patch-paths
>       (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
>         (substitute* "im-config"
>           (("/usr/bin/fcitx") (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "fcitx") "/bin/fcitx"))
>...
>))))))
>