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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Application Setup on Trisquel
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:54:48 -0700
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"Caleb Herbert" <csh@bluehome.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote ..
>> Hi Caleb,
>>=20
>> "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.=20
>> > Where should these changes be made permanent?  (It is bad practice to
>> > put environment variables in .bashrc.)
>>=20
>> /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=E2=80=99t want to repeat what=E2=80=99s alre=
ady 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=E2=80=99.