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From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eliminate environment variable hints?
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:52:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wokwhjhc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8cinw1m.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:56:21 +0100")

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> 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?

Personally I like what you've proposed.  On a related note, I dislike
that the suggestions do not include absolute paths.  I don't want to put
"my-profile/bin" in my PATH; I usually want to put
"$(pwd)/my-profile/bin" on my path.  If you follow the suggestions when
using relative paths, things break as soon as you cd somewhere else.

-- 
Chris

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-18  4:52 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
2019-03-06 13:25   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-06 13:48   ` Dan Frumin
2019-03-18  4:52   ` Chris Marusich [this message]
2019-04-11  8:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-12 15:10       ` Chris Marusich

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