On 13/12/2015, Alex Vong <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13/12/2015, Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Alex Vong <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> I notice youtube-dl comes with a man page, bash completion file and
>>> fish completion file. However, since it is located in a very werid
>>> path, the programs normally wouldn't find it. So, I add
>>> native-search-paths.
>>
>> Would it not be better to patch the build system such that the files are
>> installed in the expected locations?
>>
>> I don’t like to have to needlessly set environment variables for
>> programmes to work.
>>
>> ~~ Ricardo
>>
>>
>
> OK I would try to patch build system, but I am not very familiar with
> custom build system like pip.
>
Actually, setuptools not pip is used in guix. I have tried a manual
install using pip. It works perfectly. Now I need to investigate why
setuptools does not work as expected.
