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Subject: Re: Setting environment variables (GUIX on foreign distro)
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To: Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>
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On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 10:49:54PM +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
> My question regards setting environment variables, which are considered
> by applications installed via GUIX on a foreign distro (Trisquel). What
> is the best practice to set custom environment variables?

You should set them in the typical way for your operating system and
shell. In general, you should do it in the initialization files for
login shells. If you are using Bash, use ~/.bash_profile.