Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Amirouche writes: > On 2019-05-16 11:25, Tk wrote: >> When installing packages, I often get warnings about adding variables >> to .profile . >> These warnings, however, get easily lost when installing bunch of >> stuff automatically. Is there a way of extracting this info again? >> Should I gre

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Tk writes: > Except PATH, there are other environment variables needed by, for > example, R, or Python, or Git. These also get mentioned in the > warnings. Are they also automatically set and sourced once I enter > another login shell? Those that are mentioned by Guix: yes. There are other va

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-17 Thread ison
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but don't these always get placed into ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile Right now mine seems almost identical to the output of guix package --search-paths with the only difference being that the values in that file are prepended to the existing ones. Therefore all you s

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-16 Thread Jeff Bauer
I've put the following in my .profile: GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" if [ -d $GUIX_PROFILE ] || [ -h $GUIX_PROFILE ] ; then export GUIX_PROFILE export GUIX_LOCPATH=$GUIX_PROFILE/lib/locale/ source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile fi I have it set up this way so my .profile is portable b

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-16 Thread Tk
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:21, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Tk, > > Tk wrote: > > > When installing packages, I often get warnings about adding > variables to > > .profile . > > Which warnings are these? Are you sure that's what they mean? > > Something like ‘

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-16 Thread Amirouche
On 2019-05-16 11:25, Tk wrote: When installing packages, I often get warnings about adding variables to .profile . These warnings, however, get easily lost when installing bunch of stuff automatically. Is there a way of extracting this info again? Should I grep through package definitions? $ g

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tk, Tk wrote: When installing packages, I often get warnings about adding variables to .profile . Which warnings are these? Are you sure that's what they mean? Something like ‘the following variable definitions might be needed’ doesn't mean you should go edit your .profile, but you're far

Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-16 Thread Tk
When installing packages, I often get warnings about adding variables to .profile . These warnings, however, get easily lost when installing bunch of stuff automatically. Is there a way of extracting this info again? Should I grep through package definitions? Tk Sent with [ProtonMail](https://