On 06/09/2017 02:17 AM, Bryan Richter wrote: > I see that nixpkgs patches libpurple (pidgin) to look for plugins > in paths specified by PURPLE_PLUGIN_PATH. Do I have to set that var > manually? > > I would hope that installing a plugin into my environment would update > the variable automatically.
You want pidgin.override { plugins = [ ..... ]; }
> Are there other cases in the nixpkgs universe that match this pattern? [...]
Yes, plugin-style packaging is more complicated with nix. Normally
packages assume there's one directory which collects all plugins of a
particular type, but we typically don't want that, so other ways are used.
--Vladimir
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