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From: "Caleb Herbert" <csh@bluehome.net>
Subject: Re: Application Setup on Trisquel
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:04:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote ..
> Hi Caleb,
> 
> "Caleb Herbert" <csh@bluehome.net> skribis:

Sal', Luchjo!

> > The manual instructs users on foreign distros to export environment
> > variables.  Doing this in the shell makes the changes temporary. 
> > Where should these changes be made permanent?  (It is bad practice to
> > put environment variables in .bashrc.)
> 
> /etc/profile would be the right place.

Should this info be added to the manual?  Following the instructions
as-is leads to lost settings.

Thanks for answering all my questions.

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