From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: GST_PLUGIN_PATH Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:53:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160709125011.24587-1-david@craven.ch> <87y44xiwz6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPVT3-00026k-K5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:53:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPVSy-0001q7-Oz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:53:49 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::22d]:35605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPVSx-0001p7-HZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:53:44 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id j12so9281120ywb.2 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 06:53:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y44xiwz6.fsf@gnu.org> 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: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi > The reason was to allow GStreamer plugins installed in the user=E2=80=99s > profile to be found automatically. I think this remains a valid reason. > Note that we have a 'native-search-paths' specification on the > 'gstreamer' package, so if you install that package in your profile, it > should remind you to set GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH. Unfortunately, this is > not very satisfactory because there's usually no reason to install > gstreamer in your profile. I thought GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH was set during the build, so all that need= ed to be done is wrap the program. Just ignore this patch then if it's still relevant. Thanks, David