"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’.

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