Re: GIO_EXTRA_MODULES breaking foreign-distro programs

[Philip McGrath]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022, at 12:51 PM, zimoun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On mar., 09 août 2022 at 17:27, Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I plan to track down whatever package added GIO_EXTRA_MODULES to my profile 
>> and 
>> remove it for now, but that seems like a pretty drastic workaround. Is this 
>> a 
>> known issue? Is there a better way to deal with it, either from my side or 
>> within Guix?
>
> It rings a bell.  I had a similar issue recently.  Something related,
> IIRC, is reported in the bug tracker and possible a workaround, but I am
> not able to find it.  Sorry.
>
> Well, in my case, I just do not load the profile by default, i.e., I
> manually load the profile and not via some Shell configuration files.
>
>
> Cheers,
> simon

In my case, I found that 'emacs-next-pgtk' was unnecessarily propagating 
'glib-networking'. I sent this patch with a fix: 
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57421

-Philip