Am Donnerstag, dem 05.05.2022 um 19:29 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos: > Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op do 05-05-2022 om 19:19 [+0200]: > > My assumption here is that the split profiles are still "complete", > > hence thematic profiles. A thematic profile could for instance > > consist of all your emacs packages, in which case only emacs > > packages are added into the union-build and only EMACSLOADPATH > > needs to be considered. Another thematic profile could consist of > > all the guile packages you need always, e.g. guile-readline and > > guile-colorized, though both are [...] > > This doesn't work for SSL_CERT_DIR/SSL_CERT_FILE nss-certs can be installed to their own profile and referenced from there, but are typically part of the OS config. No glaring issue here.
> GUIX_LOCALEPATH Does this affect applications other than Guix itself? > PYTHON_TZPATH Don't know anything about this one tbh. > Also, this seems like a limitation that the user needs to be aware > of (and hence documented). Why give the user something buggy and > inform the user that its buggy, when it can be made non-buggy? Why do we have a section "Application Setup" in our manual? Shouldn't we make it so that no application requires setup? The variables you quoted above are an exception rather than a rule. Though to be fair, I disagree with said variables not only for this reason, but also because they break similar setups with `guix shell'. Again, the long-term goal is to eliminate such bugs and we can do that by making those PATH variables support multiple directories. Cheers
