Hi! Philip McGrath skribis: > The default values from the XDG base directory specification make little > sense for Guix System, and some scripts in Guix assume that they are not > "empty or unset": for example, see . > On foreign distros, however, omitting the default values is likely to > break software from the distro, perhaps even preventing the desktop > environment from starting. To smooth over the difference, use the > system-wide configuration to ensure the environment variables are always > explicitly set on foreign distros. > > * etc/guix-install.sh (sys_create_init_profile): Explicitly initialize > XDG base directory variables. [...] > +# Explicitly initialize XDG base directory variables to ease compatibility > +# with Guix System: see . > +export XDG_DATA_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}" > +export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}" I think variable expansion happens at the wrong time: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ cat > /tmp/t < export PATH="$PATH:foobar" > EOF $ cat /tmp/t export PATH="/gnu/store/lq7ysaq5qbxh9xavx1zffgwrg4r8yhsy-profile/bin:/gnu/store/lq7ysaq5qbxh9xavx1zffgwrg4r8yhsy-profile/sbin:/home/ludo/.guix-home/profile/bin:/home/ludo/.guix-home/profile/sbin:/home/ludo/.guix-home/profile/bin:/home/ludo/.guix-home/profile/sbin:/run/setuid-programs:/home/ludo/.config/guix/current/bin:/home/ludo/.guix-profile/bin:/home/ludo/.guix-profile/sbin:/run/current-system/profile/bin:/run/current-system/profile/sbin:/gnu/store/0c1yfbxyv877mlgychfgvmk5ha2jqh52-gzip-1.10/bin:/gnu/store/8fpk2cja3f07xls48jfnpgrzrljpqivr-coreutils-8.32/bin:foobar" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- (The problem already exists, and should be fixed, but it’s about variables that are less likely to be used.) Could you address that by escaping dollars? Otherwise LGTM. Thanks, Ludo’.