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[bug#56050] [PATCH] home: services: environment-variables: Fix XDG base
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#56050] [PATCH] home: services: environment-variables: Fix XDG base directories. |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 23:39:37 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Philip,
Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com> skribis:
> I based this patch on the file that gets installed as /etc/profile.d/guix.sh
> (I haven't found its source yet). Maybe we could leave this code alone if we
> change that file, instead? Then, both on Guix System and on foreign distros,
> some system-wide code would be responsible for initializing these search
> paths, and we could assume in contexts like this that they are explicitly set
> and not empty.
Yes, changing /etc/profile.d/guix.sh sounds better: it allows us to
provide a solution specifically for foreign distros.
This file is created by ‘etc/guix-install.sh’, the installation script
given at <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html>.
> One catch is that, right now, this is what was installed for me into
> /etc/profile.d/guix.sh:
[...]
> but $HOME/.guix-profile doesn't exist for me (only $HOME/.guix-home), so this
> script exits without setting GUIX_LOCPATH or XDG_DATA_DIRS. Maybe something
> about that should change?
Yes, that too! We should change it so that it checks
~/.guix-home/profile and ~/.guix-profile (in that order) and picks the
right one.
Would you like to give it a try?
Thanks,
Ludo’.