From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] system: Do not export GST_PLUGIN_PATH in /etc/profile. Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:41:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160709125011.24587-1-david@craven.ch> <20160718165552.1480-1-david@craven.ch> <87shv370vb.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQCMI-0007A6-1t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:41:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQCMH-0008Q7-4k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:41:41 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::243]:36077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQCMH-0008Q3-0R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:41:41 -0400 Received: by mail-qt0-x243.google.com with SMTP id u25so3653138qtb.3 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 04:41:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:17 PM, David Craven wrote: >> What is the impact of this change on users? >> >> Will it still be possible to install rhythmbox, then some GStreamer >> plugins, and have rhythmbox recognize those plugins? > > I think that to do that you'd create a custom package called my > rythmbox or something, declare rythmbox and the optional plugins as > dependencies and add a startup script that sets the correct > environment variables or something like that. Why not simply move that variable declaration to the skeleton shell init script that is copied into $HOME/.bashrc so that everything still works properly without having to do anything ? -- Vincent Legoll