From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Eliminate environment variable hints? Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:10:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20190219081023.GA5294@jurong> References: <87a7iswyki.fsf@elephly.net> <20190218221809.GA12263@jurong> <87va1gusw4.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45618) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gw0U9-0002tf-SN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:10:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gw0U9-0001X2-5v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:10:37 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([185.233.100.1]:46138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gw0U8-0001P3-UW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:10:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87va1gusw4.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:41:47AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > This only needs to be done when GUIX_PROFILE is not set. The > definitions in etc/profile either reference /gnu/store directories > directly (when GUIX_PROFILE is not set) or they reference the profile > links (when GUIX_PROFILE is set). that is an interesting point, thanks a lot for explaining it! So I think that the best advice the command could give would be both to set GUIX_PROFILE and to source etc/profile. Andreas