Better documenting of environment variables

[spadino]

Just clean reinstalled my windows to the last build, and I took the chance to rethink the whole layout.
I permanently and globally moved my Users folder to another partition (D:) and, as soon as my OS is ready, I proceeded to install scoop.

Part of my layout rethinking also was how and where programs installed. At first, I took a look at how scoop use its environment variables, and I saw that I could change many of them. So, I decided that I want users installed programs available for all users, but in the same partition of my users, and globally available tools - development, etc... - in the root of the first partition. As I already used c:\Tools for some other addons and programs, I opted for it. So, that's becomes my setup routine:

After opened Power Shell:

[environment]::setEnvironmentVariable('SCOOP','D:\Tools','User')
$env:SCOOP='D:\Tools'

That's put user installed apps in a folder available for all users to read from.
Than:

[environment]::setEnvironmentVariable('SCOOP_GLOBAL','C:\Tools','User')
$env:SCOOP_GLOBAL='C:\Tools'

That tell to scoop to install in C:\Tool all global programs, for a convenient and clean approach.

Finally:

iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')

and all is ready to go!

I think that it is not a real issue, but if environment variables could be better documented, many other users can benefit from them!

[r15ch13]

Thanks, you are absolutely right! 👍
It's mentioned briefly on the Quick-Start Wiki Page but I think it should also be added to the README.md and also to the main website. May I ask you for a pull-request? 😄

[spadino]

@r15ch13, thanks for your feedback. I certainly can prepare a pull request, however I'm not sure I have much more information to include. I'll give it a look, ok? ;)

[nicksettoon]

just FYI this is still not clearly documented in either the README or the Quick Start. you have to go to a powershell script to get the full list and defaults as far as i can tell.

#4579

https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/blob/5e3dd663f8cac03fd573404350673e8a81e9309a/libexec/scoop-config.ps1