bug#49353: closed (INFOPATH and MANPATH not set in profiles)

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Your message dated Thu, 03 Mar 2022 01:24:59 -0500
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and subject line Re: bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #37790,
regarding INFOPATH and MANPATH not set in profiles
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> INFOPATH and MANPATH not set in profiles
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> Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:54:17 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> MANPATH is set by the man-db package, and /etc/profile.
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> INFOPATH is set by the emacs package, the texinfo package, and
> /etc/profile.
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> /etc/profile sets the variables as such:
> export 
> MANPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/share/man:/run/current-system/profile/share/man
> export 
> INFOPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/share/info:/run/current-system/profile/share/info
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> This means if I use multiple profiles, and I don't have `(and man-db (or
> emacs texinfo))` in each profile, then I can't access the info and man
> files using the info and man commands.
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> For example:
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> Fails to find man page
> guix environment --ad-hoc neovim
> man nvim
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> Finds man page just fine
> guix environment --ad-hoc man-db neovim
> man nvim
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> Re: bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile
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> Date: 
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> Thu, 03 Mar 2022 01:24:59 -0500
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)
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> tags 37790 notabug
> thanks
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> Hi,
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> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
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> > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
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> >> I agree it’s inconvenient, but how would you add an exception?
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> > I'm not too sure how Guix works here, but what about when building the
> > profile, systematically populating etc/profile with MANPATH=...?
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> I don't think special casing ~/.guix-profile like this, polluting other
> profiles is a good idea.
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> I'm closing this 2+ years old bug.
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> Thank you,
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> Maxim
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