Dear, On Thu, 01 Oct 2020 at 14:34, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> One of the things we can do to provide a better first-time experience on > a foreign distro is to automatically do some of the things that make > Guix readily usable and convenient, even for someone who skips the > “Application Setup” section of the manual. Things that come to mind: > > 1. Installing Bash and Zsh completion files globally (actually making > them a symlink to > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/etc/…). > There seems to be +/- a cross-distro conventional directory to > collect those, for example /etc/bash_completion.d, no? The script > could create that symlink, perhaps asking the user to confirm. Done in b3fba5ef043b161d05a9fdc371a32d89e9b22ea1. > 2. Adding the following lines to /etc/profile (taken from Guix System): > > # Arrange so that ~/.config/guix/current comes first. > for profile in "$HOME/.guix-profile" "$HOME/.config/guix/current" > do > if [ -f "$profile/etc/profile" ] > then > # Load the user profile's settings. > GUIX_PROFILE="$profile" ; \ > . "$profile/etc/profile" > else > # At least define this one so that basic things just work > # when the user installs their first package. > export PATH="$profile/bin:$PATH" > fi > done > > The user should be explicitly asked whether they want this change > to be made. Nothing to done. > 3. It could check “ps aux | grep nscd” and install nscd using the host > distro package manager if needed, or at least suggest doing it. Done in b2683a2bed424f58722c9c17c9582e3e2e19d9a3. So closing!
