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bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile
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From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
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Subject: |
bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile |
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Date: |
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:54:51 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Pierre,
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
> `man` fails to find man pages from non-default profiles.
> Indeed, MANPATH is set in /etc/profile to
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> export MANPATH=\
> $HOME/.guix-profile/share/man\
> :/run/current-system/profile/share/man
>
> I believe that each profile should set MANPATH in their own etc/profile.
As usual, ‘MANPATH’ is only defined when ‘man-db’ is also present in the
profile, since ‘MANPATH’ “belongs” to ‘man-db’.
HTH!
Ludo’.