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Re: Application Setup on Trisquel
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Application Setup on Trisquel |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:54:48 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Caleb Herbert" <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote ..
>> Hi Caleb,
>>
>> "Caleb Herbert" <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> Sal', Luchjo!
>
>> > The manual instructs users on foreign distros to export environment
>> > variables. Doing this in the shell makes the changes temporary.
>> > Where should these changes be made permanent? (It is bad practice to
>> > put environment variables in .bashrc.)
>>
>> /etc/profile would be the right place.
>
> Should this info be added to the manual? Following the instructions
> as-is leads to lost settings.
Would you like to suggest a patch?
The bottom line is that we don’t want to repeat what’s already in the
Bash manual (see
<https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Startup-Files.html>),
but we can definitely link to it.
Thanks in advance,
Ludo’.