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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 35942@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35942: guix install: environment variable message is very confusing
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 17:23:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgsyvc0e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871s0ipyr1.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Tue, 28 May 2019 14:08:50 +0200")

Hi,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> Robert Vollmert wrote:
>> Suggestion to instead print:
>>
>> Set the following environment variables to use <package> right away:
>
> Thanks for the bug report!  Related (not duplicate) thread:
>
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00362.html>

I don’t think we reached a conclusion back then.  I’m fine with Robert’s
suggestion, but do people think it will really help?

Others were in favor of dropping this message altogether, which I think
wouldn’t be a good idea: how would people discover about search path
handling?

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-28 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-28 11:17 bug#35942: guix install: environment variable message is very confusing Robert Vollmert
2019-05-28 12:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-28 15:23   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-05-30  7:07     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-05-31 16:45       ` Andreas Enge
2019-05-31 21:19       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-06  7:48         ` Ludovic Courtès

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