Re: [PATCH] Improve shell script headers and pre-inst-env handling

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about the propagation of $GUILE_LOAD_PATH &
>> co. to subprocesses, because we know there’s none anyway.
>
> That policy will lead to future where libguile-using programs break in
> random ways when they happen to be subprocesses of each other.

I agree in general with your feeling.

However, in that case, we know that these command-line tools are just
wrappers around our Scheme APIs, and that they won’t ever launch any
program (programs are a thing of the past; procedures are the future).
So it just seemed safe to me to do that in this particular case.

What do you think?

(BTW, rather than $GUIX_UNINSTALLED, it just occurred to me that
$GUIX_LOAD_PATH would do just as well while being more generic and
easier to implement/use.)

Ludo’.