Re: [PATCH] gtk+: Support GUIX_GTK{2,3}_PATH variables.

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 03 Dec 2015 21:59, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

>> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> Only question for me would be, would these patches with s/GUIX_// be
>> accepted upstream?  They should be submitted at least.
> 
> I haven’t tried and I don’t really know how to present it.  For
> FHS-abiding distributions this is not a problem usually, because
> GTK_EXE_PREFIX could be used instead.  We cannot set GTK_EXE_PREFIX to
> ~/.guix-profile/lib because that would make it necessary for ibus (for
> example) to propagate the gtk+ package, which is unacceptable for us.
> 
> I think FHS people simply have no need for it.

ACK.  In that case LGTM FWIW.  I wonder what Nix does here, but that's
just idle wondering :)

Cheers,

Andy