Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

address@hidden (Carlos Sánchez de La Lama) skribis:

> I have an interesting case here. I have guile installed in my system
> profile, so that
>
> /var/guix/profiles/system/profile/share/aclocal/guile.m4
>
> is there. However, autoconf is installed in my *user* profile, so
> ACLOCAL_PATH is augmented in ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile to include
>
> ~/.guix-profile/share/aclocal
>
> But not the system-profile aclocal directory, which would be put into
> ACLOCAL_PATH by /var/guix/profiles/system/profile/etc/profile if
> autoconf was installed in the systme profile as well.
>
> Is this the intended behaviour? I am wondering whether packages with
> search paths should include both the user-profile directories and the
> system-profile ones.

I think you’re right.  This was discussed at
<http://bugs.gnu.org/20255>, leading to a patch (for GuixSD).

However, we failed to build consensus around the approach of this patch,
so we did not apply it.  If you have ideas, please email
address@hidden  :-)

One of the fruits of this discussion, though, is that you can do:

  guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -p ~/.guix-profile --search-paths

to get the combined search paths.

Ludo’.