Hello, Fis Trivial <[email protected]> writes:
>> >> so I >> still think it might be best to deal with the problems on a case by case >> basis. >> > > I tried to find out what would Fedora set *GI_TYPELIB_PATH* if guix didn't. > It turns out, nothing. If I comment out the line containing *GI_TYPELIB_PATH* > in ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile, the variable won't be exist. > Is there any suggestion for what I can do, to let guix have this variable, > while > Fedora wouldn't see it? I think a bold, but definitive approach at fixing this problem would be to never use known environment variables in Guix search paths specifications. Instead, we should introduce custom Guix-specific flavors of the same variables, e.g. GUIX_GI_TYPELIB_PATH. That's more work (need to write and maintain patches that add those Guix-specific variables along their regular flavor), but that'd mean we can set all the variables we want not worrying about breaking a foreign distribution. What do you think? Maxim
