Re: Document GUIX_LOAD_PATH?

[Clément Lassieur]

zimoun <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Pierre,
>
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 12:28, Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Today I learned about the existence of GUIX_LOAD_PATH.  It does not seem
>> to be documented in the manual.  Is it anywhere in the doc?  Shall we
>> document it?
>
> It can be documented in devel pages., maybe Contributing.
>
> But IMHO, the normal use should be via the --load-path option and the
> GUIX_LOAD_PATH should be less and less used; stay here for historical
> reason and/or backward compatibility and/or some devel use-case.
>
> Well, for discoverability, it appears to me easier to list an option
> with "guix <cmd> --help" than list environment variables.

Hi Simon and Pierre,

It was me who talked to you about it, and...  It's not GUIX_LOAD_PATH,
it's GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, sorry!!

(And it's documented :))

See you soon!
Clément