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bug#35942: guix install: environment variable message is very confusing
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Ludovic Courtès |
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bug#35942: guix install: environment variable message is very confusing |
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Date: |
Tue, 28 May 2019 17:23:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> skribis:
> Robert Vollmert wrote:
>> Suggestion to instead print:
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>> Set the following environment variables to use <package> right away:
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> Thanks for the bug report! Related (not duplicate) thread:
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> <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’.