Hi,
I would like some environement variables to be present whenever I enter
a shell using `guix shell -p ...`.
Is there an easy way to do this?
I tried it this way: in the manifest file I use to define the
profile, I define a package and set some
(native)-search-paths. Unfortunatly this It didn’t work for some
reason I ignore. The environment variables are not there when I enter
the shell or source the profile directly. Here is the code
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(define my-env
(package
(version "0")
(source #f)
(build-system trivial-build-system)
(arguments '(#:builder (mkdir %output)))
(synopsis "Empty package")
(description
"This package creates its store directory and nothing more.")
(home-page #f)
(license license:gpl3+)
(name "my-env")
(native-search-paths
(list (search-path-specification
(variable "PYTHONPATH")
(files '("/home/teddd/..."
"/home/teddd/..."
"/home/teddd/...")))
(search-path-specification
(variable "BLENDER_USER_CONFIG")
(files '("...")))
(search-path-specification
(variable "BLENDER_OPTIONS")
(files '("--python-use-system-env")))
))
(arguments '(#:builder (mkdir %output)))
))
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Another problem I would have with this method is that the last environment
variable I want to set (BLENDER_OPTIONS) is not even a path. I am not
sure it is possible to sepcify a file-type to be "just a string".
Anyway I think this seems to be the wrong approach.
How would you approach this?
I konw direnv and other utils to set environment variables exist, I
miself use a bash script to initialize my profiles with variables I
want. But it would just be much more convinient to be able to define arbitrary
env
variables in a guix manifest and enter a shell with everything you need.
Best,
Théo
