Howdy, csanchez...@gmail.com (Carlos Sánchez de La Lama) skribis:
>>> Making this work would need two things: >>> 1) not stripping unexisting directories from search paths >>> 2) constructing environment variables prepending every profile root to >>> the search paths of each profile. >>> >>> Now, my question is, why are unexisting search paths removed? >> >> I don’t think this is really the problem here. The problem here is that >> if a profile contains only, say, guile-json, there is no way Guix can >> know about GUILE_LOAD_PATH because that variable is associated with >> Guile itself, not with guile-json. > > The idea is each profile environment unconditionally adds search paths > for all the profiles in use (which are passed when evaluating > <profile>/etc/profile in the GUIX_PROFILES variable). This was the > proposal in my first message (looks *similar* to an earlier post in the > bug discussion, but it is quite different). > > In the case you suggest, the profile cointaining guile will define > GUILE_LOAD_PATH to point inside its own profile and *also* inside the > profile containing guile-json. The problem is that, as things currently are, the profile that contains only Guile has no reason to define GUILE_LOAD_PATH. So I’m unsure if this can work as is. We’ll see! Thanks for looking into it, Ludo’.
