Re: User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories

[Carlos Sánchez de La Lama]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:

> Carlos Sánchez de La Lama (2016-09-20 09:39 +0200) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> Is this the intended behaviour? I am wondering whether packages with
>>>> search paths should include both the user-profile directories and the
>>>> system-profile ones.
>>>
>>> I think you’re right.  This was discussed at
>>> <http://bugs.gnu.org/20255>, leading to a patch (for GuixSD).
>>>
>>> However, we failed to build consensus around the approach of this patch,
>>> so we did not apply it.  If you have ideas, please email
>>> address@hidden  :-)
>>
>> what about something like:
>>
>> - /etc/profile
>>   # [...]
>>   GUIX_PROFILES="/run/current-system/profile:$HOME/.guix-profile"
>>   . /run/current-system/profile/etc/profile
>>   # [...]
>>   . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile"
>>   # [...]
>>
>> - /run/current-system/profile/etc/profile
>>   profiles="${GUIX_PROFILES:=/gnu/store/<hashA>-profile}"
>>   export PATH="${profiles//:/\/bin}/bin ${profiles//:/\/sbin}/sbin"
>>   # [...]
>>
>>
>> - $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile
>>   profiles="${GUIX_PROFILES:=/gnu/store/<hashB>-profile}"
>>   export ACLOCAL_PATH="${profiles//:/\/share/aclocal}/share/aclocal"
>>   # [...]
>>
>> That is, each profile adds all its search paths to all the profile roots
>> passed in the colon separated variable GUIX_PROFILES. If GUIX_PROFILES
>> is empty, it adds the search paths inside its own directory only (as
>> until now).
>
> I think it was mentioned somewhere in the bug discussion: this will not
> work for some things.  For example, if a user has 'guile' in a system
> profile, and several guile packages (but not 'guile' itself) in
> ~/.guix-profile, then GUILE_LOAD_PATH will include
> "<system-profile>/share/guile/site/2.0" but not
> "<user-profile>/share/guile/site/2.0".  That's why combining profiles
> inside "guix package --search-paths" command looks like the only
> solution.

It will actually solve it, that is the case I was trying to fix in
fact. The code I show will include /share/guile/site/2.0 prefixed
by every root in the colon-separated list GUIX_PROFILES (note the
difference with current code with has GUIX_PROFILE, singular). If
GUIX_PROFILES is (as in the example):

GUIX_PROFILES="/run/current-system/profile:$HOME/.guix-profile"

And guile is in the system profile, the line

export 
GUILE_LOAD_PATH="${profiles//://share/guile/site/2.0:}/share/guile/site/2.0"

will produce:

export 
GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/run/current-system/profile/share/guile/site/2.0:$HOME/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0

As desired. Same result if guile is only in user profile, or if it is on
both. Try the following in bash:

profiles="/run/current-system/profile:$HOME/.guix-profile:/my/third/profile"
echo "${profiles//://share/guile/site/2.0:}/share/guile/site/2.0"

BR

Carlos