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Subject: bug#64990: jupyter kernels install kernel.json without GUIX_PYTHONPATH
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Consider this scenario: a number of users access a shared jupyterhub /
jupyterlab installation, which allows them to launch their own jupyter
kernels.  The shared installation was deployed with Guix.  The user
kernels are installed like this:

    $ guix shell python python-ipykernel python-foo python-bar =E2=80=A6
    $ [env] python3 -m ipykernel install --user --name whatever --display-n=
ame whatever
    Installed kernelspec whatever in /home/rekado/.local/share/jupyter/kern=
els/whatever

The installed kernel.json looks like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
{
 "argv": [
  "/gnu/store/=E2=80=A6-profile/bin/python3",
  "-m",
  "ipykernel_launcher",
  "-f",
  "{connection_file}"
 ],
 "display_name": "whatever",
 "language": "python",
 "metadata": {
  "debugger": true
 }
]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

That=E2=80=99s not sufficient because the =E2=80=9Cipykernel_launcher=E2=80=
=9D module is
provided by the python-ipykernel package and the shared jupyter{hub,lab}
doesn=E2=80=99t know about this package.  That=E2=80=99s because it doesn=
=E2=80=99t use the
GUIX_PYTHONPATH of the profile containing the user=E2=80=99s packages.

Perhaps we could add a profile hook that adds an =E2=80=9Cenv=E2=80=9D fiel=
d to the
generated kernel.json file, which augments the existing GUIX_PYTHONPATH
with the appropriate value for the current profile.

We can do this on the command line like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  python3 -m ipykernel install \
    --user --name whatever --display-name whatever \
    --env GUIX_PYTHONPATH "${GUIX_PYTHONPATH}:\${GUIX_PYTHONPATH}"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Or we can edit the JSON directly.

The documentation of the kernel.json format is available here:
https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/stable/kernels.html#kernel-specs

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