Subject: Re: [bug#39636] [PATCH 6/6] gnu: kicad: Add translations and search paths.

From: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:35:34 +0100

Hi Brice,

thanks for the patch series.

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:28:34 +0100
Brice Waegeneire <[email-masked]> wrote:

> +    (native-search-paths
> +     (list (search-path-specification
> +            (variable "KICAD_TEMPLATE_DIR")
> +            (files '("share/kicad/template")))
> +           (search-path-specification
> +            (variable "KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR") ; symbol path
> +            (files '("share/kicad/library")))
> +           (search-path-specification
> +            (variable "KISYSMOD")       ; footprint path
> +            (files '("share/kicad/modules")))
> +           (search-path-specification
> +            (variable "KISYS3DMOD")     ; 3D model path
> +            (files '("share/kicad/modules/packages3d")))))

What is the effect of these?

Otherwise fine, I'll apply all of those, but I'm just wondering what the above
is for because I've seen thousands of packages and very very few have that,
and even fewer "normal end user" programs do.