GNU bug report logs - #53257
Setting TERMINFO_DIRS

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: florhizome <florhizome <at> posteo.net>

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Florian <florhizome <at> posteo.net>, 53257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#53257] [PATCH] gnu: foot: expose terminfo dirs via native-search-paths
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 16:46:32 +0100
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Florian schreef op za 15-01-2022 om 15:19 [+0000]:
> [...]
> As I see major problems f.e. with QT applications, that seem related to
> not setting search paths, a proposal of mine for the future would be to improve/
> actually introduce good documentation to the search-patch
> variables (and their relationship to profiles and propagated inputs)

About documentation, you might be interested in
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/22138#8>.

>  but
> maybe simplify setting a search-path correspanding to a more distinct
> group of programs. I could imagine this as something like a search-path
> "type", working out like this:
> (package
> ...
> (native-search-paths
> (list
> (search-path-specification
> (type terminal-emulator))
> ...)
> )
> at first this would just be the same as the code added to foot, but it
> could be refined (people might be able to  see overlaps, and integrate
> some filtering or other optimization for a specific group. Also you could maybe eventually say "install a
> package but without these search-paths"). For groups like qt plugins,
> it could maybe be included in the qt-wrap functionalities to look for
> the paths where plugins are installed and add the corresponding search paths automatically.

Not sure what you mean here, when building a package it is unknown
what plug-ins will be used in advance.  The point of search paths is
having some kind of extensibility, setting the search path environment
variables in qt-wrap would undo that.

Greetings,
Maxime.
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