Subject: bug#56076: guix shell -P behavior is surprising with persistent home

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:55:14 +0200

Hi,

Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 24-06-2022 om 23:10 [+0200]:
>> That said, for this particular use case, you could do:
>> 
>>   guix shell syncthing nss-certs openssl -- syncthing
>> 
>> Adding ‘openssl’ to the mix is a trick to ensure that SSL_CERT_DIR is
>> defined, thanks to the search path mechanism:
>> 
>>   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Search-Paths.html
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
> Having to add openssl looks like a bug,

It is, but it’s a reasonable solution for the problem at hand.

> so I'd go for something like <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55297>
> instead, which resolves that.

That’s a bit of a hack to work around this venerable bug:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/22138

:-)

Ludo’.