Dovecot + pigeonhole packaging

[Alexey Abramov]

Hi guix,


My system requires me to have dovecot and pigeonhole. So I packaged it. I 
created two none public packages and merged them into one big package.


But wouldn't it be better to do it the same way as debian does?Every 
component lives in a separate package, and if I need some library I don't 
have to install the giant package.


The problem I encountered is that dovecot has mail_plugin_dir property 
which does not accept multiple folders. It means I have to put and install 
new plugins in the very same directory with existing plugins. rpath is not 
an option here. Even if a library knows where to load its dependencies, 
dovecot doesn't aware of it.


Is there a way to have shared store folder? Debian overrides  rpath to all 
dovecot extensions and set it to /usr/dovecot/lib.


Or maybe create a dummy package and use it as a storage for the libraries? 
What is the right approach here?


I also checked how nixos does it, and I don't like this approach, they 
patch source code and install their libs in /etc


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Alexey