[Bug]: Inferred package manager is wrong #34

What happened?

I'm on a NixOS system and, based on the pfl is required to find packages error it must be assumed to be a Gentoo-based one.

The command and output

asdf # missing package so it tells me to install it

asdf

fish: Command not found: asdf
pay-respects: pfl is required to find packages
pay-respects: No matching package found

image

Build information

version: 0.7.9

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I worked around it with by specifying the config, but since there's no system-level configuration (at least documented), it's a bit annoying to have to fix this for every user.

# ~/.config/pay-respects/config.toml
[package_manager]
package_manager = "nix"
install_method = "Shell"

Do you have emerge installed? It's check alphabetically so 'e'merge is before 'n'ix.

You can set it with environment variables. Documented at README (maybe should be moved into configuration.

• _PR_PACKAGE_MANAGER: Use defined package manager instead of
  auto-detecting alphabetically. Empty value disables package search
  functionality
  • _DEF_PR_PACKAGE_MANAGER: compile-time value

I don't, but I checked my $PATH and there's an emacs merge executable called emergein there added by emacsclient :/

ls -l (which emerge)

lrwxrwxrwx - root 31 Dez 1969 $HOME/.nix-profile/bin/emerge -> /nix/store/$HASH-emacsclient-commands-0-unstable-2023年09月22日/bin/emerge

I think that setting the $_PR_PACKAGE_MANAGER variable on a system-level would fix things. Checking if the binary called $PM is actually the package manager $PM you expect it to be is a step too far into paranoia.

I'd still prefer system-level config over environment variables (#35), but better documentation on the environment variables maybe lets me also set the install method globally.