From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: PYTHONPATH woes
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:18:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7w3r8of.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180220150135.GA20101@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:01:35 +0100")
On Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:01, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:53:54AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Would it be good to make the wrappers for Python scripts stricter and
>> not accept any user-set PYTHONPATH?
>
> I think that is a bad idea. You need to be able to opt out.
Why? I am not sure this is the case for programs that just happen to be
written in Python.
> That should come with a health warning ;). Similarly we should allow
> for LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. It is what they exist for, even if it is
> dangerous.
In Guix we don't set LD_LIBRARY_PATH but we do set PYTHONPATH, so it's
not quite the same I don't think.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-20 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-20 10:53 PYTHONPATH woes Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 15:01 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-02-20 15:18 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2018-02-20 16:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-02-20 15:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-21 21:58 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-02-22 15:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-22 18:35 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-02-22 20:42 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-02-23 8:45 ` Vincent Legoll
2018-02-23 12:36 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-02-23 16:59 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-02-23 19:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-23 23:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-02-24 10:44 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-02-24 10:49 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-02-27 11:43 ` PYTHONPATH issue analysis - part 1 (was: PYTHONPATH woes) Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-13 21:54 ` PYTHONPATH issue analysis - part 1 Hartmut Goebel
2018-02-27 11:49 ` PYTHONPATH issue analysis - part 2 (was: PYTHONPATH woes) Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-11 21:47 ` PYTHONPATH issue analysis - part 3 " Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-13 21:23 ` PYTHONPATH issue analysis - part 3 Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-13 21:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-13 22:02 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-14 7:49 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-14 9:04 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-14 18:21 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-15 19:48 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-13 21:47 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-14 9:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-13 21:51 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-14 0:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-15 9:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-15 19:30 ` PYTHONPATH issue explanation Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-17 1:41 ` 宋文武
2018-03-17 10:07 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-17 22:46 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-17 22:53 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-17 11:18 ` [PATCH] gnu: python: Honor 'GUIX_PYTHON_X_Y_SITE_PACKAGES' 宋文武
2018-03-17 21:53 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-18 0:04 ` 宋文武
2018-03-18 0:07 ` 宋文武
2018-03-17 22:04 ` PYTHONPATH issue explanation Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-18 0:57 ` 宋文武
2018-03-18 10:05 ` 宋文武
2018-03-24 20:47 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-16 14:21 ` PYTHONPATH - let's systematically tame the baest Hartmut Goebel
2018-04-17 1:47 ` 宋文武
2018-04-17 7:03 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-04-18 8:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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