Re: how can I open files through packages installed in different profiles

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Hi,

thanks for your explanation.

for this, you can try putting the various profiles' share folder

to XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable.

How can I do this?

I am using MATE desktop mainly (more shortcuts) and sometimes KDE (less shortcuts for me at the moment).

Note that your desktop environment needs to have

this environment variable, so you need to export it in something like a .profile
file or otherwise ensure it's in your DE.

Please explain it more, I am on a lower level.

thanks
Gottfried


Am 07.12.24 um 15:02 schrieb Rutherther:

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Hi G. Preihs,

4.
I realised now, that, when opening Dolphin (KDE) and want to open a
file, right click (mouse) it ask me: "open with" , arrow down (right
side) it doesn´t show up that package with which I want to open this
file. But when writing e.g. libreoffice it opens the file with
libreoffice. After doing it once, libreoffice is mentioned in future in
this list. Interestingly it opens also with a package, which is located
in an other profile and I haven´t open this profile beforehand.
How that works, I don´t know.

for this, you can try putting the various profiles' share folder
to XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable. I suppose you are already
sourcing the environment variables of all the profiles, but unfortunately
XDG_DATA_DIRS is not propagated. There is a longstanding issue that's still
open about stuff like this. Note that your desktop environment needs to have
this environment variable, so you need to export it in something like a .profile
file or otherwise ensure it's in your DE.

5.
One question remains for me, if I update only one profile and it
downloads all the necessary dependences, how that works for the other
profiles which I didn´t update, also for the default profile, if I can
call it this way.

Most packages shouldn't mind about this. Guix puts them to separate store paths,
and since the profiles for the most part do not interact, there shouldn't be 
many
problems. But there still can be some, like potentially with qt plugins, glibc 
locales,
and other stuff. Generally potentially anything that needs some environment 
variables in the profile,
where multiple profiles use the same ones. But that is not to say that every 
time they overlap there will
be problems. Take PATH, Guix packages are usually patched or wrapped to refer 
to runtime dependencies
in the store directly, not to take them from PATH.

Regards,
Rutherther
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 15:01:43 +0100
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