GNU bug report logs - #37790
MANPATH missing from non-default profile

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 49353

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 37790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:11:47 +0200

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> 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?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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