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Re: Missing fonts issue with GNU Icecat
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Mike Gerwitz |
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Re: Missing fonts issue with GNU Icecat |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:58:51 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 16:07:12 +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> ```
>> The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
>> export
>> XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/share${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
>> export
>> GIO_EXTRA_MODULES="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gio/modules${GIO_EXTRA_MODULES:+:}$GIO_EXTRA_MODULES"
>> ```
>
> I’m glad you figured this out. I wonder if this means that we should
> change the icecat package to set these variables (e.g. by adding a shell
> wrapper).
Only XDG_DATA_DIRS (or XDG_DATA_HOME) are needed for me in a
container. Is GIO_EXTRA_MODULES actually needed for anything? I don't
even have a `lib/gio' directory in my profile.
> What do others think?
Yes, please. IceCat is effectively completely broken without this on
foreign distros and within containers. It looks like on GuixSD
XDG_DATA_DIRS is set in /etc/profile; I never had to set it manually.
But the presence in /etc/profile implies to me that there are other
packages that require this variable to be present. Should those
packages also have wrapper scripts?
--
Mike Gerwitz
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