Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> 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’.