From: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "The following environment variable definitions may be needed"
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 09:39:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ziekygnu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shkcvs33.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 10 May 2017 14:01:20 +0200")
On 05/10/2017 at 14:01 Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hi!
>
> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> This leads to my question: If I'm using GuixSD (or a foreign distro in
>> which $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile is automatically sourced), do I need to
>> add these recommended export statements to my ~/.bashrc or
>> ~/.bash_profile?
>
> No.
>
>> My suspicion is that the answer is "no". The next time I reboot or log
>> out and back in, the environment variables will be set correctly even if
>> I don't add them to my ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. In fact, by adding
>> them there, I would be adding redundant entries. I am hoping that
>> someone can confirm that my understanding is correct.
>
> Confirmed!
>
> I think the recommendations that ‘guix package’ produces are still
> useful though, precisely because $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile won’t be
> re-sourced until you log in again.
These messages were a source of confusion for me. It is really great to
see this clarified.
What if we change the message from ...
The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
export PATH="test-profile/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
... to ...
If you need the package before the next login, do:
export PATH="test-profile/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
> Exercise for the reader: extend Bash with Guile-Bash such that the new
> environment variable settings are automatically effected when ‘guix
> package’ is run. :-)
This sounds cool. Could you please expand on it a bit?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-10 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-10 5:53 "The following environment variable definitions may be needed" Chris Marusich
2017-05-10 9:19 ` ng0
2017-05-10 12:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-10 13:39 ` myglc2 [this message]
2017-05-10 21:49 ` Niall Dooley
2017-05-11 8:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-11 19:55 ` Niall Dooley
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