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Gajim plugins |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:54:38 +0100 |
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Hi,
The first patch allow one to package Gajim plugins. It also removes two
inputs that were added for the OMEMO plugin.
The second add the OMEMO plugin.
Thanks,
Clément
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Re: [bug#33386] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: gajim: Add support for Guix packaged plugins. |
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Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:22:14 +0100 |
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Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> writes:
> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
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>> Hi Clément,
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>>> I don't understand what this means.
>>> > I thought one can use any number of profiles - and this patch could
>>> > definitely pick from the wrong one.
>>>
>>> What do you mean? This patch just adds the Guix packaged plugins to the
>>> list of plugin dirs.
>>
>> guix supports any number of profiles as one user, the ~/.guix-profile one is
>> just
>> the default, you can create and select profiles at will.
>>
>> You can specify any profile you want using the option "-p" to "guix package"
>> -
>> also, "guix environment" will create a custom profile.
>>
>> However, your patch hardcodes ~/.guix-profile which is in general not what a
>> user
>> using "-p" would want. I agree that it makes sense to search for the
>> plugins in
>> the current profile, but it's not clear to me that ~/.guix-profile is always
>> guaranteed to BE the current profile. Is it?
>>
>> According to
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-environment.html#FOOT16
>> ,
>> fontconfig already hardcodes ~/.guix-profile and "guix environment" has a
>> special flag to fake it, so maybe (probably?) it's OK to use it after all.
>>
>> I hope someone else can chime in - but this is what immediately caught my
>> eye because what's the use of all these environment variables if one
>> hard-codes ~/.guix-profile anyway - could have hard-coded it in all packages,
>> then...
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> Understood, thanks for this nice explanation!
>
> I attached a new patch. What do you think?
I pushed it. I'll be happy to improve it if you have other comments.
Thanks,
Clément
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