Re: Trying to fix IBus

2016-08-12 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Chris Marusich writes: >> >>> One last thing: it seems that the NixOS devs' choice of solution was >>> influenced by a desire not to require users to rebuild programs that >>> were previously installed in their profiles [1]. They almost chos

Re: Trying to fix IBus

2016-08-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> One last thing: it seems that the NixOS devs' choice of solution was >> influenced by a desire not to require users to rebuild programs that >> were previously installed in their profiles [1]. They almost chose a >> solution like the one you

Re: Trying to fix IBus

2016-08-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Chris Marusich writes: > One last thing: it seems that the NixOS devs' choice of solution was > influenced by a desire not to require users to rebuild programs that > were previously installed in their profiles [1]. They almost chose a > solution like the one you are proposing, but they changed

Re: Trying to fix IBus

2016-08-11 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> NixOS encountered the same problem: >>> >>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14568 >>> >>> I don’t like their solution to set a variable NIX_PROFILES and let GTK >>> look for immodule files in each of th

Re: Trying to fix IBus

2016-08-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Chris Marusich writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> NixOS encountered the same problem: >> >> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14568 >> >> I don’t like their solution to set a variable NIX_PROFILES and let GTK >> look for immodule files in each of the directories. > > Why don't you li

Re: Trying to fix IBus

2016-08-11 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > NixOS encountered the same problem: > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14568 > > I don’t like their solution to set a variable NIX_PROFILES and let GTK > look for immodule files in each of the directories. Why don't you like their solution? Why do you believe

Re: Trying to fix IBus

2016-08-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Alex Griffin writes: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 04:09 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> What do you think? Is this acceptable/reasonable? > > It seems to me like it's probably fine, for whatever that's worth, and > also cleaner than the NIX_PROFILES solution. How will this work on > foreign distros,

Re: Trying to fix IBus

2016-08-10 Thread Alex Griffin
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 04:09 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > What do you think? Is this acceptable/reasonable? It seems to me like it's probably fine, for whatever that's worth, and also cleaner than the NIX_PROFILES solution. How will this work on foreign distros, though? -- Alex Griffin