Subject: bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile

From: Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:11:47 +0200

> As usual, ‘MANPATH’ is only defined when ‘man-db’ is also present in the
> profile, since ‘MANPATH’ “belongs” to ‘man-db’.

Indeed, but I'm suggesting we add an exception for the sake of
convenience and consistency:

- The default profile ~/.guix-profile is added, man-db or not.
- It's seems a bit unfortunate that all my profiles need to have man-db
  in it.

What do you think?

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Pierre Neidhardt
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