{config, pkgs, ...}: let texinfo = pkgs.texinfoInteractive; # Quick hack to make the `info' command work properly. `info' needs # a "dir" file containing all the installed Info files, which we # don't have (it would be impure to have a package installation # update some global "dir" file). So this wrapper script around # "info" builds a temporary "dir" file on the fly. This is a bit # slow (on a cold cache) but not unacceptably so. infoWrapper = pkgs.writeScriptBin "info" '' #! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell} dir=$(mktemp --tmpdir -d "info.dir.XXXXXX") if test -z "$dir"; then exit 1; fi trap 'rm -rf "$dir"' EXIT shopt -s nullglob for i in $(IFS=:; echo $INFOPATH); do for j in $i/*.info; do ${texinfo}/bin/install-info --quiet $j $dir/dir done done INFOPATH=$dir:$INFOPATH ${texinfo}/bin/info "$@" ''; # */ in { environment.systemPackages = [ infoWrapper texinfo ]; }