Hello, 2018-01-01 18:19 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>:
> Hi! > > Jelle Licht <jli...@fsfe.org> skribis: > > > As far as I can see, the current version of dvtm does not work properly > > with programs such as htop etc. > > > > To reproduce: > > ``` > > $ guix package -i dvtm > > $ dvtm > > $ htop > > ``` > > It only worked properly once I added something like: > > `export TERMINFO_DIRS="/home/jelle/.guix-profile/share/terminfo"`. > > > > Would a proper fix be to simply add a native-search-path declaration to > the > > dvtm package? If so, I can prepare a patch this weekend. > > ‘TERMINFO_DIRS’ is a search path of ncurses. However, because search > paths of dependencies are not honored, it doesn’t get set: > > https://bugs.gnu.org/22138 > > This is what we should fix. > Fixing this properly seems like it would take effort indeed. > > It would feel wrong to add ‘TERMINFO_DIRS’ as a search path of dvtm and > everything that depends on ncurses. > Am I correct in assuming that as a temporary (personal) workaround, I can just install ncurses in my profile as well? Perhaps guix can warn if you install a package which has a dependency with a search path like ncurses? Or would this be too much of a hassle to implement? It would not solve the issue, but at least prevent people from not understanding why their packages are not working. WDYT? > > Thanks, > Ludo’. > - Jelle
