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Subject: Re: Plan for fish shell in Guix.
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:45:46 +0100
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Hello,

this seems to be one of the problem points that comes around again and agai=
n.

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2019. jan.=
 7., H, 12:37):
>
>
> Hi,
>
> > I plan to make Guix more friendly for fish shell, so that users can set
> > fish shell as their login shell.
>
> Thank you for taking the initiative.

Yes, thank you.

There is also a problem that often manifest on Debian and derivatives,
where /bin/sh is dash, as
some parts of the current generated script, and also some of our hints
imply bash.

Another problem on Debian like systems, is that the startup scripts
are ran in a distribution specific manner,
so for example the XDG_DATA_DIR environment should be set up in
.xsessionrc, as that is the only startup
script running on GUI session initialization... I guess there might be
other distro specific problems.

It might be worthy to have a look at other shells too, have a list
which ones are supported, or how could support be improved.

Best regards,
g_bor