Re: Best practices for Guix environment variables on foreign distro
> When I arrive home (I am at work) I will look at the suggestions in Have you succeeded? > Thank you in advance. You're welcome! :D
Re: Best practices for Guix environment variables on foreign distro
March 13, 2018 9:38 AM, "Adonay Felipe Nogueira"wrote: >> 16.04LTS) and it works fine. Sourcing ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile from >> $HOME/.profile, on the other hand, prevents logins to GNOME or Unity >> sessions. > > I don't know if Unity respects ${XDG_DATA_DIRS}, but I hope so. If it does: > then perhaps because you have to treat ${XDG_DATA_DIRS} specially, as I > explained in other posts. I forgot to mention that I run Ubuntu GNOME. When I arrive home (I am at work) I will look at the suggestions in this thread. Thank you in advance. - I am Brazilian. I hope my English is correct and I welcome feedback - Please adopt free formats like PDF, ODF, Org, LaTeX, Opus, WebM and 7z - Free/libre software for Android: https://f-droid.org/ - [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html][What is free software?]]
Re: Best practices for Guix environment variables on foreign distro
I don't know if this is recommended, but I set all my variables inside "${HOME}/.profile". Morever, the first thing I do in "${HOME}/.profile" is to source my user's Guix profile --- `source "${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile"'. The caveat is that every time GNU Guix changes my profile generation, I have to log out and then back in --- no need to reboot --- for the changes to take effect or for the variables to be re-instated, because it seems that, after the changes made by GNU Guix, programs "forget" some variables or other information. -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre. Por favor, veja formas de se comunicar instantaneamente comigo no endereço abaixo. - Contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard - Arquivos comuns aceitos (apenas sem DRM): Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV. - Arquivos comuns aceitos e enviados: CSV, GNU Dia, GNU Emacs Org, GNU GIMP, Inkscape SVG, JPG, LibreOffice (padrão ODF), OGG, OPUS, PDF (apenas sem DRM), PNG, TXT, WEBM.
Re: Best practices for Guix environment variables on foreign distro
On 12/03/2018 11:11, Ludovic Courtès wrote: If my attempt is recommended against then how else should I enable Guix on Emacs and interactive Bash shells while preventing it from disrupting the foreign distro (e.g. programs spawned by GNOME)? Or is this feared disruption a non-issue in practice and I’m creating unnecessary complication? The suggestion is to source ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile from ~/.bash_profile (or similar). That's what I am using in exactly the same setup (Guix on Ubuntu 16.04LTS) and it works fine. Sourcing ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile from $HOME/.profile, on the other hand, prevents logins to GNOME or Unity sessions. Konrad.
Re: Best practices for Guix environment variables on foreign distro
Hello Jorge, "Jorge"skribis: > Hi. I use Guix on Ubuntu 16.04.4[1] to get up-to-date packages while > running Ubuntu LTS. When setting up Guix environment variables I feared > disrupting the foreign distro. If a program P on the foreign distro > invokes binary B, it expects the B version shipped with the foreign > distro. If the Guix version of B is on the search path I fear trouble. > Therefore, instead of configuring all Guix environment variables on > `~/.profile', I only configured there `GUIX_PROFILE', `INFOPATH', > `MANPATH' and `GUIX_LOCPATH'. I put the configuration of `SSL_CERT_DIR' > and `SSL_CERT_FILE' and the statement to source > `"${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile' (which configures `PATH') on `~/.bashrc' > so they do affect interactive Bash shells but not programs spawned by > GNOME or by systemd. > > However, I found an e-mail message on this list[2] and the footnote on > [info:guix#Invoking guix environment], both of which recommend against > sourcing `"${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile' from `~/.bashrc'. > > If my attempt is recommended against then how else should I enable Guix > on Emacs and interactive Bash shells while preventing it from disrupting > the foreign distro (e.g. programs spawned by GNOME)? Or is this feared > disruption a non-issue in practice and I’m creating unnecessary > complication? The suggestion is to source ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile from ~/.bash_profile (or similar). > A related question: how do I make all info manuals from Guix accessible > to Emacs? Not every Guix package is installed on my profile. For now, > I configured INFOPATH to include both my user profile and root’s: > > ┌ > │ > INFOPATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/share/info/:${INFOPATH-}" > │ export INFOPATH="${GUIX_PROFILE}/share/info/:${INFOPATH-}" > └ That’s the right approach! HTH, Ludo’.