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Document usage of MANPATH in nix-profile.sh

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While trying to figure out how `nix-env`/`nix profile` work I had a hard
time understand how man pages were being installed.

Took me quite some time to figure this out, thought it might be useful
to others too!
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Nicolas Mattia 2022-02-21 13:35:51 +01:00
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@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ if [ -n "$HOME" ] && [ -n "$USER" ]; then
export NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE="$NIX_LINK/etc/ca-bundle.crt" export NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE="$NIX_LINK/etc/ca-bundle.crt"
fi 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 if [ -n "${MANPATH-}" ]; then
export MANPATH="$NIX_LINK/share/man:$MANPATH" export MANPATH="$NIX_LINK/share/man:$MANPATH"
fi fi