Subject: bug#22138: Search paths of dependencies are not honored

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 15:52:46 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> The attached procedure computes the search paths of a package based on
> its run-time dependencies.  ‘profile-derivation’ could use this to
> compute its ‘etc/profile’ file and its ‘manifest’ file.

One difficulty with this approach is that search paths are currently a
“host-side” feature: there’s a ‘search-paths’ field in <manifest-entry>,
which is populated before the profile is actually built.

What I suggest above would mean turning search paths into a “build-side”
feature, which has some implications.

Needs more thought…

Ludo’.