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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Caleb Herbert <csh@bluehome.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Application Setup on Trisquel
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:54:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8ulg5g7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1508882649.29501@bluehome.net> (Caleb Herbert's message of "Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:04:09 -0700 (PDT)")

"Caleb Herbert" <csh@bluehome.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <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.

Would you like to suggest a patch?

The bottom line is that we don’t want to repeat what’s already in the
Bash manual (see
<https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Startup-Files.html>),
but we can definitely link to it.

Thanks in advance,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-26 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-24 18:12 Application Setup on Trisquel Caleb Herbert
2017-10-24 21:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-24 22:04   ` Caleb Herbert
2017-10-26 17:54     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-10-27  1:02     ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-24 23:33   ` Caleb Herbert
2017-10-24 23:44     ` Caleb Herbert
2017-10-26 17:52       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-26 20:05         ` Caleb Herbert
2017-10-25  0:36   ` Mikhail Kryshen
2017-10-26 17:53     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-27  3:29       ` Caleb Herbert
2017-11-08  6:39       ` Caleb Herbert
2017-11-09 21:05         ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-10 21:29           ` Caleb Herbert
2017-11-12 14:55           ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-11-12 17:09             ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-11-12 13:02         ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-11-02  2:59 ` Mark H Weaver

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