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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2022-02-21 16:54:01 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-02-21 16:54:01 +0100
commitb98ce1954481a9e40ca640c934599633bebeed80 (patch)
treef7152910a69013e44ace6a4b72e504d3a5c0790f /scripts
parente2422c45820b3c71665669972939be90248e3ad5 (diff)
parent44b7d104b403062bf9ad57363f76464e355bc9a2 (diff)
Merge pull request #6138 from nmattia/nm-clarify-manpath
Document usage of MANPATH in nix-profile.sh
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/nix-profile.sh.in3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in b/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
index 8cba1c522..45cbcbe74 100644
--- a/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ if [ -n "$HOME" ] && [ -n "$USER" ]; then
export NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE="$NIX_LINK/etc/ca-bundle.crt"
fi
+ # Only use MANPATH if it is already set. In general `man` will just simply
+ # pick up `.nix-profile/share/man` because is it close to `.nix-profile/bin`
+ # which is in the $PATH. For more info, run `manpath -d`.
if [ -n "${MANPATH-}" ]; then
export MANPATH="$NIX_LINK/share/man:$MANPATH"
fi