From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Environment variables in Guix and GuixSD
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 08:13:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d565897-cc97-6dc1-7663-8f140e1b77fd@riseup.net> (raw)
Hi
I noticed during my years of reading this list that difficulties
stemming from wrong environment variables or lack of knowledge of the
importance of these is VERY common among (new) guix users.
To help everyone I wonder if it is possible for Guix to automatically
register all these suggested changes to variables that happen after
installing a package and check whether the user did his job of managing
this correctly and help if not.
What do you think?
E.g.:
$ guix check
Found 10 needed environment variables in the database.
Checking current user environment...
Found 1 potential problem:
"/user/.guix-profile/bin" is missing from $PATH
This is needed to find binaries bla bla.
See how to set this variable in the manual section.
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
next reply other threads:[~2018-11-04 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-04 7:13 swedebugia [this message]
2018-11-06 11:32 ` Environment variables in Guix and GuixSD Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-06 11:38 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-11-07 21:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-08 7:02 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-11-09 13:49 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-11-11 13:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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