Subject: Re: bug#29686: gnu: aspell: Do not ignore GuixOS system profile.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:55:40 +0100

Hi Oleg,

Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]> skribis:

> [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>>> Currently, if aspell is installed in GuixOS system profile and not in
>>>> user profile then aspell cannot find dictionaries.
>>>
>>> If you install both aspell and aspell-dict-* in the global profile, then
>>> ASPELL_DICT_DIR will point to /run/current-system/profile/lib/aspell
>>> instead of ~/.guix-profile/lib/aspell.  Likewise:
>>>
>>> $ guix environment --ad-hoc aspell aspell-dict-ru coreutils -C --
>>> env | grep ASPELL
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> ASPELL_DICT_DIR=/gnu/store/hssihv9d5cq5hzh0kiwdwiv6qcrc921c-profile/lib/aspell
>>>
>>> So I’m not sure we need a custom fix, do we?  :-)
>>
>> Oleg, can we close this bug?
>
> No,
>
> guix environment --ad-hoc aspell aspell-dict-ru coreutils -C -- aspell dicts
>
> returns nothing, but need to return a list like
>
>     en
>     en-variant_0
>     en-variant_1
>     en-variant_2
>     en-w_accents
>     en-wo_accents
>     en_AU
>     en_AU-variant_0
>     …

Indeed.  I have:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix environment --ad-hoc aspell aspell-dict-ru -C -- aspell --config | grep -A3 dict-dir
# dict-dir (string)
#   location of the main word list
# default: <$ASPELL_DICT_DIR|home-dir/.guix-profile/lib/aspell> = /gnu/store/b411b0fbwc85fjnf0h030gdkbv1qdmqh-profile/lib/aspell
dict-dir /home/ludo/.guix-profile/lib/aspell

# encoding (string)
#   encoding to expect data to be in
--
# default: <actual-dict-dir> = /home/ludo/.guix-profile/lib/aspell/

# master (string)
#   base name of the main dictionary to use
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The value that shows up after the “=” sign is as expected (it’s
$ASPELL_DICT_DIR), but the value shown on the line below is not.

Sounds like a problem in ‘aspell-dict-dir.patch’.

Ludo’.