Hi Maxime, Maxime Devos skribis: > Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 28-01-2022 om 23:34 [+0100]: [...] >> An option we’ve used before, in fact to work around >> , is to define certain variables >> globally; on Guix System, you’ll see this in /etc/profile: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> # Allow Hunspell-based applications (IceCat, LibreOffice, etc.) to >> # find dictionaries. >> export DICPATH=\ >> "$HOME/.guix-profile/share/hunspell\ >> :/run/current-system/profile/share/hunspell" >> >> # Allow GStreamer-based applications to find plugins. >> export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=\ >> "$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gstreamer-1.0" >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> We should probably do the same for ‘TERMINFO_DIRS’. [...] > Ok, this could work with things in the user profile, but it's a rather > ad-hoc solution and won't work with "guix shell", so I would prefer > adding it to 'etc/profile'. Yeah; like I wrote, it’s a workaround, but it solves the most common issues. > One option is to modify 'build-etc/profile' to always add > 'TERMINFO_DIRS' (and maybe DICPATH, GUIX_LOCPATH and > SSL_CERT_DIR/FILE?) to the list of search paths. That’s not appealing to me; the way I see it, that’s going a bit too far in the direction of dismissing per-package search paths in favor of hard-coded lists of search paths. >> (Of course that that doesn’t help on foreign distros, but maybe >> ‘TERMINFO_DIRS’ is already set there?) > > I'm currently on Debian+Guix. $TERMINFO_DIRS is not set here. > Even if it was, I doubt you'd find the files for 'foot' in there > unless 'foot' is installed with the foreign distro's installer > -- AFAICT, 'foot' is not present in ncurses' terminfos. Oh wait, I just realized that ‘foot’ comes with its own terminfo files. In that case, the solution would be to wrap it so that it systematically adds itself to TERMINFO_DIRS. That’s the go-to solution in such situations. WDYT? Ludo’.