From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] system: Do not export GST_PLUGIN_PATH in /etc/profile. Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:17:38 +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]:47424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQBzA-0001fQ-1e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:17:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQBz3-0004N3-Tv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:17:46 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x244.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::244]:35376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQBz2-0004Mz-Mc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:17:41 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x244.google.com with SMTP id c13so5248955ywh.2 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 04:17:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87shv370vb.fsf@igalia.com> 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: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel > 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.