Ludovic Courtès (2015-11-23 02:04 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2015-11-22 13:52 +0300) wrote: > > [...] > >> but it suits only the default case of a single user profile. If I >> have several user profiles, it does nothing useful for me, only wastes >> the time. > > I think this is fine. ~/.guix-profile is treated specially in many > ways. I think users do not expect other profiles to be magically taken > into account. Yes, this is a good default option, all I wanted to say is if I don't use Guix in a default way, I would like to change this default option to suit my needs. >>> What would you suggest? >> >> After all, I realized what is my main concern: "/etc/profile" is >> non-editable. If I don't like some pieces of this file, I can do >> nothing, and I just have to live with it and suffer. Ideally I would >> like to decide what pieces I want to put in /etc/profile and what I >> don't. But it's probably not possible, so… >> >> … what I suggest now is just to give an option to avoid generating the >> default /etc/profile. What about making an 'operating-system' field for >> this file (similar to 'sudoers-file' or 'hosts-file')? So when such >> 'profile-file' is specified, it will be used instead of the default one >> (of course, it should be mentioned in the manual that it's only for >> those users who are sure what they do). > > I think we could make an /etc/profile-service that receives snippets > meant to be glued together into the final /etc/profile. Users could > specify the top or bottom of the file. > > There could be a combined-search-paths-service that implements the > solution I proposed here. > > WDYT? I agree, the more ways to change a default behaviour, the better. Although I will not use these things if there will be ‘profile-file’ field that allows to specify my own "/etc/profile". >> If this 'profile-file' field appears, I will gladly use it, and I will >> not object to any future changes in /etc/profile. > > Of course we want to offer this flexibility. Great! So is it OK to send a patch for adding ‘profile-file’ field? > But I think it’s also > important to discuss the defaults, to make sure they are acceptable to > many and that they improve the “user experience.” I'm probably not the person to discuss the defaults, as very often I find defaults inappropriate. For example, invoking "guix package --search-paths" in /etc/profile is a totally unacceptable default for me (sorry for mentioning it all the time :-)) -- Alex