Hi Konrad, On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 at 11:37, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote:
> thanks for shedding some light on this strange behavior. After some more > exploration, the fundamental issue seems to be that many packages use > certificates but only a very small number declare a dependence on > nss-certs. In fact, nss-certs has only three direct dependents (icedtea, > ldns, and pypy) and 115 additional indirect dependents. That includes > r-reqon from Simon's example, which depends on icedtea via r-rjava and > openjdk. Yeah, I found it using “guix graph -t reverse-package nss-certs”. :-) > Python actually lists openssl as a dependency, but that is apparently > not sufficient to propagate the environment variables. I think it is the issue: correctly propagate the environment variables. But I do not know how. Cheers, simon