#20255 - 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profile.

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Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

>>> At first, because of the slowdown: it may be a few hundred milliseconds
>>> for you, but it's several seconds for me.
>>
>> Really?  Can you show the output of:
>>
>>   time guix package -p /run/current-system/profile \
>>                     -p ~/.guix-profile --search-paths
>
> real	0m2.634s
> user	0m0.568s
> sys	0m0.080s

Ouch, that’s a problem.  This suggests that this is 2 seconds of I/O.
I’m not sure what can be done to improve that.

>> In the discussion of this bug, we tried hard to avoid resorting to
>> invoking a program, but ultimately no other solution came out.
>
> I don't need a solution for this bug, I just want to have an option to
> avoid invoking "guix package --search-paths" in my "/etc/profile".

Are you denying that this is a bug?  Are you denying that there’s a
usability issue at hand?

To me, what 宋文武 reported at the beginning of this thread is a
usability issue.  We’ve hacked around it so far, but we know there are
cases where the hacks aren’t enough.

We could declare it as “won’t fix”, but I’m not comfortable with that.

>>> For example, when I do:
>>>
>>>   GUIX_IGNORE_SYSTEM_PROFILE_ENV=1 guix system build my-config.scm
>>>
>>> the "etc/profile" of the built system will not contain those 'eval ...'
>>> lines.  WDYT?
>>
>> This would be unreasonable.  We’re talking about a basic feature here.
>> If basic features are broken to the point that we prefer to offer ways
>> to bypass them, and have a semi-broken system, then there’s a problem,
>> IMO.
>
> Sorry, but I would really like to bypass this feature

[...]

I very well understand your concern, so thanks for chiming in.
Please let’s also consider the bug at hand.

The solution I came up with might be inadequate.  Then we need to come
up with an alternate proposal, or to resign and mark it as “wontfix.”

What would you suggest?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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#20255 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profile.