From: Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>
To: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Setting environment variables (GUIX on foreign distro)
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 22:49:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92849722-89de-50b0-c564-239cbddb53e8@posteo.de> (raw)
Hello,
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?
I've successfully set them in my ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile before, but
there they will be overwritten when I update packages. I could not find
anything about an extra file with the purpose of housing user
definitions and not changing them.
My scenario is, that I wish to point LyX to a non-GUIX-installed texlive
distribution, which is done by setting the following environment variables:
TEXMF, TEXMFCNF
My texlive installation is more up to date than the one in GUIX
packages, complete and I wish to use that one, instead of having GUIX
point to any texlive distribution of GUIX.
Regards,
Zelphir
next reply other threads:[~2020-04-05 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-05 20:49 Zelphir Kaltstahl [this message]
2020-04-06 17:11 ` Setting environment variables (GUIX on foreign distro) Leo Famulari
2020-04-07 14:27 ` Joshua Branson
2020-04-07 23:14 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-04-07 23:45 ` Leo Famulari
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