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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:54:51 +0200
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
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Hi Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> `man` fails to find man pages from non-default profiles.
> Indeed, MANPATH is set in /etc/profile to
>
> export MANPATH=3D\
> $HOME/.guix-profile/share/man\
> :/run/current-system/profile/share/man
>
> I believe that each profile should set MANPATH in their own etc/profile.

As usual, =E2=80=98MANPATH=E2=80=99 is only defined when =E2=80=98man-db=E2=
=80=99 is also present in the
profile, since =E2=80=98MANPATH=E2=80=99 =E2=80=9Cbelongs=E2=80=9D to =E2=
=80=98man-db=E2=80=99.

HTH!

Ludo=E2=80=99.