Re: [PATCH] gnu: rhythmbox: Add gst-plugins-ugly dependency.

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I don't think we should apply this patch.  Instead, please set
>> GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH to ~/.guix-profile/lib/gstreamer-1.0 and then
>> all gstreamer plugins installed in your profile should be available
>> to programs based on gstreamer.  Works for me with totem, anyway.
>>
>> Note that we have a 'native-search-paths' specification on the
>> 'gstreamer' package, so if you install that package in your profile, it
>> should remind you to set GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH.  Unfortunately, this is
>> not very satisfactory because there's usually no reason to install
>> gstreamer in your profile.
>
> Right.
>
> As an interim solution, I would suggest this:
>
> diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
> index ea6e9c1..2c1387e 100644
> --- a/gnu/system.scm
> +++ b/gnu/system.scm
> @@ -511,6 +511,9 @@ export DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0
>  # Allow Aspell to find dictionaries installed in the user profile.
>  export ASPELL_CONF=\"dict-dir $HOME/.guix-profile/lib/aspell\"
>  
> +# Allow GStreamer-based applications to find plugins.
> +export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=\"$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gstreamer-1.0\"
> +
>  if [ -n \"$BASH_VERSION\" -a -f /etc/bashrc ]
>  then
>    # Load Bash-specific initialization code.
>
> This is inelegant, but better than broken software IMO.

Done in 4af7c83bc7010b23735c40e074c7d581dad8212e.

Ludo’.