From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eliminate environment variable hints?
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:56:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8cinw1m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7iswyki.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:56:13 +0100")
Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> when installing a package into a profile Guix very helpfully tells you
> that you may need to set certain environment variables. It doesn’t tell
> you that these environment variables can also be set by source’ing 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?
When (re)sourcing etc/profile, you might clutter some variables. For
instance, if you do that several times, you can end up with:
PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:…
Conversely, the hint upon installation disappears if the entry is
already present in the variable.
That’s a fine point but I occasionally rely on this as a user.
That said, I understand your concern. What about changing the message
to:
You might need to run:
. …/etc/profile
Alternately, you can define the following environment variables:
…
Too verbose? Confusing?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-04 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-18 21:56 Eliminate environment variable hints? Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-18 22:02 ` Brett Gilio
2019-02-18 22:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-18 22:18 ` Andreas Enge
2019-02-19 7:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-19 8:10 ` Andreas Enge
2019-02-22 4:44 ` Chris Marusich
2019-02-19 9:17 ` Pjotr Prins
2019-02-19 9:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-19 10:14 ` Pjotr Prins
2019-03-04 21:56 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-03-06 13:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-06 13:48 ` Dan Frumin
2019-03-18 4:52 ` Chris Marusich
2019-04-11 8:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-12 15:10 ` Chris Marusich
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