ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> skribis:
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>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 17:30:42 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
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> [...]
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>>> But really, we should make a specific tool for this.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Yes, though I'd be curious how you'd approach it---each package requires
>> certain paths be shared, and those paths would further depend on user
>> privacy preferences, so need to be able to be overridden.
>
> For a start, we could simply share everything that’s in:
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>   guix gc -R $(guix build the-package)
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> plus /tmp/.X11-unix, maybe $PWD, and a few more.

If you drop the attached file under guix/scripts/, you can then run:

  guix run icecat icecat

and similar.  This particular example doesn’t work well because of the
font issue you’re familiar with, but you get the idea.  :-)

Ludo’.