The runtime directory that grammars and themes used by app-editors/helix are stored in is configured incorrectly in the ebuild. When using the ebuild-installed version of heli, grammars and themes are not availible at all, so it seems like helix doesn't detect the runtime directory that gets installed at /usr/share/helix/runtime. Manually setting the HELIX_RUNTIME environment variable to /usr/share/helix/runtime makes helix work as expected. From briefly looking at the ebuild, it seems that detecting the runtime directory is implemented using a custom patch, while the official helix README states that packages solve the issue of finding the runtime directory "by wrapping the hx binary with a wrapper that sets the variable to the install dir." It might be worth considering following this claim and if possible, setting the HELIX_RUNTIME environment variable for helix instead of using a custom patch, but I don't know enough about ebuilds and Gentoo packages to know if this is a reasonable suggestion or not.
Confirming that this report is accurate and still relevant. As for a solution I feel that patching helix to look for the runtime directory in /usr/share/helix is preferred, allowing HELIX_RUNTIME to be set by the user if necessary/desired. That said I don't have experience with packaging to make the determination myself. Bumping this to hopefully get some attention again.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/commit/?id=ef332c32ede95f702cb22ebe806c60b44aad18bf commit ef332c32ede95f702cb22ebe806c60b44aad18bf Author: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-03-16 08:37:41 +0000 Commit: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-03-16 08:37:41 +0000 app-editors/helix: treeclean, now in ::gentoo Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/819096 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/819099 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831441 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/861443 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/887227 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/901007 Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> app-editors/helix/Manifest | 544 --------------------------------- app-editors/helix/helix-22.05.ebuild | 294 ------------------ app-editors/helix/helix-22.08.1.ebuild | 326 -------------------- app-editors/helix/helix-22.12.ebuild | 431 -------------------------- app-editors/helix/metadata.xml | 21 -- 5 files changed, 1616 deletions(-)
