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bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
From: |
Leo Prikler |
Subject: |
bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:45:37 +0200 |
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Evolution 3.34.2 |
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 18.08.2021, 11:28 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos:
> Leo Prikler schreef op wo 18-08-2021 om 10:03 [+0200]:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > a lot of packages would do much better if they exported
> > XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. However, there is currently no way of doing so
> > other
> > than copypasting the same snippet over and over and over and
> > over. A
> > workaround -- if you need this in an environment -- is to also
> > include
> > a package, that already has a search path on XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, like
> > glib
> > (I think glib:bin works too).
> >
> > I recently tried exporting XDG_CONFIG_DIRS as a variable from one
> > module, so that it can be referenced in others, but that led to a
> > weird
> > recursive errors. It would be nice to find a good way of doing
> > that,
> > though.
>
> What do you think of defining the <search-path-specification>
> $XDG_CONFIG_DIR in (guix search-paths) itself, next to $PATH? That
> seems
> unlikely to lead to recursive errors.
>
> Alternatively, I would guess that making 'search-paths' and
> 'native-search-paths' a ‘thunked’ field would resolve the errors,
> at cost of making <package> objects use a bit more memory.
Both sound like interesting proposals. Obviously, adding
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to (guix search-paths) would work in the short term,
but I think defining all interesting environment variables there is
probably not the best solution for the future. There's a few variables
that are used widely FSVO widely, but using them also implies having
some package as input, e.g. the cURL-related ones. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
technically also falls in there, because you will have either xorg or
xdisorg imported. Therefore, I think I'd prefer a solution where
variables can be exported (and re-exported) from any module in the (gnu
packages) subtree.
Regards
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, John Kehayias, 2021/08/18
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, Leo Prikler, 2021/08/18
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, Maxime Devos, 2021/08/18
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS,
Leo Prikler <=
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, John Kehayias, 2021/08/18
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, Leo Prikler, 2021/08/18
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, John Kehayias, 2021/08/18
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, Leo Prikler, 2021/08/18
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, John Kehayias, 2021/08/18
- bug#50103: Pulseaudio doesn't export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, zimoun, 2021/08/20