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bug#43744: guix-install.sh should do more first-time setup
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zimoun |
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bug#43744: guix-install.sh should do more first-time setup |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:34:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Dear,
On Thu, 01 Oct 2020 at 14:34, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> One of the things we can do to provide a better first-time experience on
> a foreign distro is to automatically do some of the things that make
> Guix readily usable and convenient, even for someone who skips the
> “Application Setup” section of the manual. Things that come to mind:
>
> 1. Installing Bash and Zsh completion files globally (actually making
> them a symlink to
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/etc/…).
> There seems to be +/- a cross-distro conventional directory to
> collect those, for example /etc/bash_completion.d, no? The script
> could create that symlink, perhaps asking the user to confirm.
Done in b3fba5ef043b161d05a9fdc371a32d89e9b22ea1.
> 2. Adding the following lines to /etc/profile (taken from Guix System):
>
> # Arrange so that ~/.config/guix/current comes first.
> for profile in "$HOME/.guix-profile" "$HOME/.config/guix/current"
> do
> if [ -f "$profile/etc/profile" ]
> then
> # Load the user profile's settings.
> GUIX_PROFILE="$profile" ; \
> . "$profile/etc/profile"
> else
> # At least define this one so that basic things just work
> # when the user installs their first package.
> export PATH="$profile/bin:$PATH"
> fi
> done
>
> The user should be explicitly asked whether they want this change
> to be made.
Nothing to done.
> 3. It could check “ps aux | grep nscd” and install nscd using the host
> distro package manager if needed, or at least suggest doing it.
Done in b2683a2bed424f58722c9c17c9582e3e2e19d9a3.
So closing!