many packages become nonfunctional if not install in fixed profiles (e.g. ~/.guix-profile)
These are two instances
1. blueman
2. font-conf so most of font like font-lohit will not be available
I had noticed that fixed profiles have become part of many packages/services definition
which could be the reason that many of these packages/services become dependent on
these fixed profiles.
It can be checked with
$ ag --scheme '.guix-profile'
$ grep -r '.guix-profile'
in code
Also
We provides necessary services through putting environment variables in each profiles
PROFILE_PATH/etc/profile
like for pidgin/purple
PURPLE_PLUGIN_PATH
for libraries
LIBRARY_PATH
As suggestion
We could first provide augment all variables with guix specific prefix e.g. GUIX_PEV_...
(PVS profile environment variables.)
So these all variables will become
GUIX_PEV_PURPLE_PLUGIN_PATH
GUIX_PEV_LIBRARY_PATH
then we could or could not (left to user) to set them
PURPLE_PLUGIN_PATH=$GUIX_PEV_PURPLE_PLUGIN_PATH
LIBRARY_PATH=$GUIX_PEV_LIBRARY_PATH
So with prefixed env vars, in first look one will know it is coming from guix related profiles.
maybe it will also help in removing dependencies on fixed profiles.
/syam