Re: IceCat from Guix all monospaced font – Summary

[Zelphir Kaltstahl]

On 5/5/19 11:46 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Zelphir Kaltstahl <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ah it could be, that a package changed something in `~/.profile`. I will
>> check … No it still looks the same as before.
> Guix never modifies your ~/.profile.  The relevant file is:
> ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile, which is generated each time you update
> your user profile.  On a Guix system, it is sourced from /etc/profile.
>
> On other systems, you should arrange to source that file in your login
> shell with GUIX_PROFILE set appropriately, e.g. with the following code
> in your ~/.bash_profile or equivalent:
>
>   GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" ; \
>   source "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile"
>
> This is recommended in section 4.2 of the Guix manual, here:
>
>   
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html


Yep, I did that : )

>> Also I think any installation adding something to my `~/.profile`
>> should tell the user about such a change.
> Again, Guix will never do this.  However, 'guix package' should tell you
> if you're missing environment variable settings that are needed by the
> newly installed packages.
>
>> No package I installed yesterday did so.
> Hmm.  Are you confident about this?  If so, that casts doubt on my
> hypothesis that this was about missing environment variable settings.
> Unfortunately, I currently have no other hypothesis to explain why a
> reboot was required to fix your IceCat.

I was only referring to changing my `~/.profile`, not the one under
`~/.guix-profile/etc/profile`. When I wrote the message, I was not aware
of `~/.guix-profile/etc/profile`. Yes, I am sure no package changed my
`~/.profile`. Which is good : )

Thanks for making clear which profile was meant. I guess that changes to
`~/.guix-profile/etc/profile` could be the reason then, the issue
disappeared after restart / relogin.