Hi, On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 14:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > 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 patch 1/2 #43769 [1]. > 2. Adding the following lines to /etc/profile (taken from Guix System): > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > # 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 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Hum? It looks like 'sys_create_init_profile'. I have not checked the current order but maybe that's only that. > The user should be explicitly asked whether they want this change > to be made. Currently, 'sys_create_init_profile' is simply run without asking. > 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 patch 2/2 #43769 [1]. [1] All the best, simon