From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Eliminate environment variable hints? Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:56:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87a7iswyki.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvqu6-0004Jk-P7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:56:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvqu2-0003ZD-PI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:56:46 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvqtx-0003Tc-Vp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:56:39 -0500 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Guix, when installing a package into a profile Guix very helpfully tells you that you may need to set certain environment variables. It doesn=E2=80=99t= tell you that these environment variables can also be set by source=E2=80=99ing = the generated etc/profile file. I have seen the bashrc and bash_profile files of many users and they are usually full of conflicting environment variable definitions. In these files I often also see these Guix recommendations. I think Guix should suggest sourcing the generated etc/profile file instead of listing explicit environment variable definitions. It would be less noisy and less confusing, in my opinion. What do you think? (What about people who don=E2=80=99t use Bash?) -- Ricardo