Hi! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >>> >> >> I don’t think we reached a conclusion back then. I’m fine with Robert’s >> suggestion, but do people think it will really help? >> >> Others were in favor of dropping this message altogether, which I think >> wouldn’t be a good idea: how would people discover about search path >> handling? > > I was in favour of *replacing* the message with the suggestion to run > > export GUIX_PROFILE=/this/profile > source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile > > because it usually does the right thing. > > It looks less overwhelming than the individual list of environment > variables. I’ve seen a lot of people who added all of these variables > to their bashrc (or bash_profile if they talked to me before), which is > not what we want to encourage. > > We can also hint at “guix package --search-paths” to see a full list of > environment variables for people who want to set them manually right > here and now. Sounds good to me. How about the following patch? It does produce a slightly verbose message, but I don’t think we can do much better (we could save one line by not mentioning ‘--search-paths’.) Thanks for getting the ball rolling. :-) Ludo’.