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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Cc: 53447@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:39:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yq8qn66.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19bb45159c0934e8d84035abdcfb00d8202233dd.camel@gmail.com> (Liliana Marie Prikler's message of "Sat, 22 Jan 2022 18:53:02 +0100")

Hi,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> skribis:

> I think there are too many examples to exhaustively list them all, but
> to give an example, [1, 2, 3, 4] are all the same bug and in [2] Carlo
> said we should document this under "Application Setup".  My personal
> stance is that the Guix behaviour is not a bug and other distros are
> weird for not explicitly binding it.

How about focusing specifically on XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is the root
cause of the first two bugs you mention?

We could say that installing certain packages will cause
~/.guix-profile/etc/profile to define XDG_DATA_DIRS, that this can
interfere with software installed outside Guix, such as GNOME, and that
we recommend unsetting XDG_DATA_DIRS (is that what we recommend?
breaking Guix-installed packages instead of breaking distro-installed
packages?)?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

> [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/26202
> [2] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45360
> [3] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48300
> [4] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53379




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-25  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-22 14:13 [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-22 16:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-22 17:53   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-24 22:27     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-01-25 13:29       ` [bug#53447] Introducing ‘GUIX_’-prefixed environment variables Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-26  1:56         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-01-26 12:05           ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-26 20:03             ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-27  4:53               ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-01-25  7:39     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-01-25 19:21       ` [bug#53447] [PATCH] doc: Unset environment variables considered harmful Liliana Marie Prikler

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