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Subject: Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought
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To: "Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org>
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"Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org> skribis:

> What is not clear to me is whether bash is assumed elsewhere in guix.... =
for instance, the fact that=20
>
> 	guix package --search-paths
>
> reports environment variables in bash syntax.

In practice it=E2=80=99s almost plain Bourne shell syntax.  I think the only
=E2=80=9CBashism=E2=80=9D is the mixed assignment and export (=E2=80=9Cexpo=
rt VAR=3Dvalue=E2=80=9D), which
is supported by most Bourne-compatible shells I believe (Dash being an
exception.)

> Any insights here?

The =E2=80=98etc/profile=E2=80=99 file that is created within profiles, suc=
h as
~/.guix-profile/etc/profile, uses the same syntax as above.

I don=E2=80=99t think there are other places in the user interfaces where B=
ash
is expected.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.