Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> writes: > Recently I had problems with the way GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH was working with > govuk-guix [1]. Currently, I'm using a separate directory for the > GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH that contains symlinks to a subset of the Guile > modules necessary for the packages in the repository. > > I think support (whether intentional or otherwise) for this approach was > removed in [2].
Looks like this was removed in an attempt to improve performance over NFS. The “scheme-files” procedure now includes a comment: ;; XXX: We don't recurse if we find a symlink. Would it not be better to fix this instead of adding support for special syntax in GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH? > I've attached a rough patch that sets this up, such that you can do > something like: > > export GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH="/tmp/foo^bar/baz:/tmp/cats" > > Where ^ acts as the separator, and bar/baz is the subdirectory. I sympathize with the desire to work around this problem, but for some reason I really don’t like adding special notation to path variables. (“texmf.cnf” of TeX Live has a similar feature where e.g. a trailing “//” indicates recursion.) -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
