GNU bug report logs - #41041
[PATCH] doc: Add container example to run a web browser.

Previous Next

Full log

Message #11 received at 41041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#41041] [PATCH] doc: Add container example to run a web
 browser.
Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 09:47:53 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Instead of ‘env’, you can preserve the ‘DISPLAY’ variable with:
>
>   guix environment -E ^DISPLAY$ …
>
> which in turn allows you to remove ‘coreutils’, maybe.

Good tip, thanks!  It's strange that I've seen this "coreutils + env"
trick so many times around.  I guess we really lacked examples like this
one :)

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.