On Tue, 26 May 2020, Leo Prikler wrote: > Hi, > > I don't see anything in the patch itself, that is specific to Guix, so > it should probably work upstream as well. This issue is likely going > to affect other functional package managers like Nix too, so it would > be nice, if we can get the patch to be accepted upstream. However, it > does add a specific exception just for fonts, while other resources are > still taken from XDG_DATA_HOME. As such, it is still rather an ad-hoc > solution to a very specific annoyance than something "general". Ah, I see. I missed the special exception for fonts. > I'm also not quite sure, whether this could cause problems with the > number of arguments being passed to the bwrap process exceeding some > limit. It has not yet come up so far, but I thought I'd mention it. > However, if it does, we're going to be the first to notice with our > huge environment variables, so that's probably a bigger deal here than > elsewhere. I don't think this should be a problem. bwrap supports having its arguments passed over a file describer (with the --args option), and this is what WebKitGTK does. Best, Jack