Document usage of MANPATH in nix-profile.sh
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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export NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE="$NIX_LINK/etc/ca-bundle.crt"
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fi
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# Only use MANPATH if it is already set. In general `man` will just simply
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# pick up `.nix-profile/share/man` because is it close to `.nix-profile/bin`
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# which is in the $PATH. For more info, run `manpath -d`.
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if [ -n "${MANPATH-}" ]; then
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export MANPATH="$NIX_LINK/share/man:$MANPATH"
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fi
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