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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35942: guix install: environment variable message is very
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Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 17:23:29 +0200
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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Hi,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> Robert Vollmert wrote:
>> Suggestion to instead print:
>>
>> Set the following environment variables to use <package> right away:
>
> Thanks for the bug report!  Related (not duplicate) thread:
>
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00362.html>

I don=E2=80=99t think we reached a conclusion back then.  I=E2=80=99m fine =
with Robert=E2=80=99s
suggestion, but do people think it will really help?

Others were in favor of dropping this message altogether, which I think
wouldn=E2=80=99t be a good idea: how would people discover about search path
handling?

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.