GNU bug report logs - #18698
Our WindowMaker wrapper pollutes PATH in the entire X session

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Our WindowMaker wrapper pollutes PATH in the entire X session
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:48:49 -0400

We install a wrapper script around WindowMaker that prepends
/gnu/store/XXX-windowmaker-XXX/bin to $PATH.  This setting is propagated
to all subprocesses in the entire X session, which is suboptimal.  It
would be nice to find another solution, preferably by using absolute
pathnames when launching subprocesses run by WindowMaker.

      Mark
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