Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello! >> >> Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> skribis: >> >>> How should we deal with mechanisms like this? Should I change the >>> scrollkeeper >>> database directory per program, so in this case it becomes: >>> /gnu/store/xgbvyqs...-gparted-0.26.0/var/lib/scrollkeeper >>> >>> Or can we deal with this in a more cross-package way? >> >> Maybe we could add a profile hook to ‘%default-profile-hooks’ in (guix >> profiles)? > > I think people only need Scrollkeeper when they wish to have the > documentation available in Yelp (GNOME's help browser). So it only > affects a few people I believe.
I think documentation is quite useful, in general. :-) > Would it then still make sense? Maybe this hook should only be active > when Yelp is installed in the profile on which the transaction > operates. Is that possible? Definitely. For instance, ‘ghc-package-cache-file’ does exactly this kind of trick. (It’s not completely satisfying, since we’re simply matching file names, but it does the job.) > With this construct, I'd have to patch out the 'scrollkeeper-update' > command from the GParted build system. Yes. Thanks, Ludo’.
