From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOm0w-0007Tg-7I for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:03:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOm0s-0000wi-Ug for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:03:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:56843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOm0s-0000wb-RK for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:03:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gOm0s-0005FR-GN for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:03:02 -0500 Subject: [bug#33386] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: gajim: Add support for Guix packaged plugins. Resent-Message-ID: References: <87d0r7e8ox.fsf@lassieur.org> <20181114195553.27293-1-clement@lassieur.org> <20181115191903.7f3db09b@scratchpost.org> <87efblz5w9.fsf@lassieur.org> <20181119001555.2a18946d@scratchpost.org> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur In-reply-to: <20181119001555.2a18946d@scratchpost.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:02:36 +0100 Message-ID: <878t1pjbs3.fsf@lassieur.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: 33386@debbugs.gnu.org Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Cl=C3=A9ment, > >> I don't understand what this means. >> > I thought one can use any number of profiles - and this patch could >> > definitely pick from the wrong one.=20=20 >>=20 >> What do you mean? This patch just adds the Guix packaged plugins to the >> list of plugin dirs. > > guix supports any number of profiles as one user, the ~/.guix-profile one= is just > the default, you can create and select profiles at will. > > You can specify any profile you want using the option "-p" to "guix packa= ge" - > also, "guix environment" will create a custom profile. > > However, your patch hardcodes ~/.guix-profile which is in general not wha= t a user > using "-p" would want. I agree that it makes sense to search for the plu= gins in > the current profile, but it's not clear to me that ~/.guix-profile is alw= ays > guaranteed to BE the current profile. Is it? > > According to https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoki= ng-guix-environment.html#FOOT16 , > fontconfig already hardcodes ~/.guix-profile and "guix environment" has a > special flag to fake it, so maybe (probably?) it's OK to use it after all. > > I hope someone else can chime in - but this is what immediately caught my > eye because what's the use of all these environment variables if one > hard-codes ~/.guix-profile anyway - could have hard-coded it in all packa= ges, > then... Understood, thanks for this nice explanation! I attached a new patch. What do you think? Thanks, Cl=C3=A9ment