"Caleb Herbert" <[email protected]> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote .. >> Hi Caleb, >> >> "Caleb Herbert" <[email protected]> skribis: > > Sal', Luchjo! > >> > The manual instructs users on foreign distros to export environment >> > variables. Doing this in the shell makes the changes temporary. >> > Where should these changes be made permanent? (It is bad practice to >> > put environment variables in .bashrc.) >> >> /etc/profile would be the right place. > > Should this info be added to the manual? Following the instructions > as-is leads to lost settings.
Would you like to suggest a patch? The bottom line is that we don’t want to repeat what’s already in the Bash manual (see <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Startup-Files.html>), but we can definitely link to it. Thanks in advance, Ludo’.
