Re: Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS

2019-04-12 Thread HiPhish
On Friday, 12 April 2019 11:11:31 CEST Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > HiPhish writes: > > You shouldn’t set this one. If you’re concerned about GCC not finding > libraries you should use LIBRARY_PATH, not LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > When installing gcc-toolchain, however, CPATH and LIBRARY_PATH should be > s

Re: Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS

2019-04-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
HiPhish writes: > On Friday, 12 April 2019 01:04:02 CEST Luther Thompson wrote: >> Ok, so the profile and search-paths both have the same problem. I'll >> have to dig into the source code to see if I can find a root cause. >> Hopefully in the meantime, someone who knows about this stuff can com

Re: Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS

2019-04-11 Thread HiPhish
On Friday, 12 April 2019 01:04:02 CEST Luther Thompson wrote: > Ok, so the profile and search-paths both have the same problem. I'll > have to dig into the source code to see if I can find a root cause. > Hopefully in the meantime, someone who knows about this stuff can come > up with an answer. >

Re: Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS

2019-04-11 Thread Luther Thompson
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:56:31 +0200 HiPhish wrote: > On Thursday, 11 April 2019 19:58:56 CEST Luther Thompson wrote: > > On my system ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile has all the important > > environment variables, including XDG_DATA_DIRS. When I run `guix > > package --search-paths=prefix`, I see a l

Re: Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS

2019-04-11 Thread HiPhish
On Thursday, 11 April 2019 19:58:56 CEST Luther Thompson wrote: > On my system ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile has all the important > environment variables, including XDG_DATA_DIRS. When I run `guix > package --search-paths=prefix`, I see a list of the same variables. > What do you see when you run th

Re: Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS

2019-04-11 Thread Luther Thompson
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:06:03 +0200 HiPhish wrote: > From what I understand, Guix should set all the necessary environment > variables by modifying the file $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile, which I > then need to source in my .profile file. Here are its contents: > > export > PATH="${GUIX_PROFILE:-/gn

Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS

2019-04-11 Thread HiPhish
Hello everyone, I noticed that when I use Guix to install an application that has a desktop entry, such as Gimp, Inkscape or Krita, that application does not show up in my applications menu (using KDE on Kubuntu). After some digging I have found that the environment variable $XDG_DATA_DIRS is r