zimoun (2020-02-21 16:53 +0100) wrote: > Dear, > > What is the status of the bug#20255 [1]? > It is old; the last activity seems back on 2015, November. So let resume. > > The issue is, e.g.: > - perl installed into the system profile > - perl-xml-parser installed into an user profile > Then "guix package --search-paths" does not set correctly XML::Parser. > > > Fixes had been pushed: dedb17a and b2a7223 and cc3de1d. > > The final fix is still missing. Because it is a controversial patch > [2] :-) i.e., running 'guix' in '/etc/profile'; see these lines of the > patch: > > + eval `/run/current-system/profile/bin/guix package \\ > + -p /run/current-system/profile \\ > + -p \"$HOME/.guix-profile\" --search-paths` > > > The friendly "protest" [3] is about turning these lines optional via > an environment variable. I am not sure to follow where the discussion > had been going then.
As for me, I am OK with any default setting as long as there is a way to change it. I recall Ludovic proposed a patch that allowed to customize "/etc/profile" and I was happy about it, but he changed his mind on that patch so it was never committed. -- Alex
