Ludovic Courtès (2016-09-14 16:58 +0200) wrote: > Hello, > > csanchez...@gmail.com (Carlos Sánchez de La Lama) skribis: > >> I have an interesting case here. I have guile installed in my system >> profile, so that >> >> /var/guix/profiles/system/profile/share/aclocal/guile.m4 >> >> is there. However, autoconf is installed in my *user* profile, so >> ACLOCAL_PATH is augmented in ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile to include >> >> ~/.guix-profile/share/aclocal >> >> But not the system-profile aclocal directory, which would be put into >> ACLOCAL_PATH by /var/guix/profiles/system/profile/etc/profile if >> autoconf was installed in the systme profile as well. >> >> Is this the intended behaviour? I am wondering whether packages with >> search paths should include both the user-profile directories and the >> system-profile ones. > > I think you’re right. This was discussed at > <http://bugs.gnu.org/20255>, leading to a patch (for GuixSD). > > However, we failed to build consensus around the approach of this patch, > so we did not apply it. If you have ideas, please email > 20...@debbugs.gnu.org. :-)
I think I was the one who prevents the consensus. To make it clear, I'm for the suggested solution, but only *after* giving a user a freedom to avoid loading such a heavy command as "guix package --search-paths". On a "usual" GNU/Linux distro a user can edit /etc/profile, but on GuixSD it is not possible currently. That's why I think there should be provided a possibility to override /etc/profile at first. > One of the fruits of this discussion, though, is that you can do: > > guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -p ~/.guix-profile > --search-paths > > to get the combined search paths. This is what I do to combine my profiles (I don't use ~/.guix-profile but several other profiles instead). -- Alex
