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readme: add note about session variables file

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If a user does not want to manage their shell configuration through
Home Manager then they have to manually make sure that the session
variables are set.
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@ -89,6 +89,24 @@ Currently the easiest way to install Home Manager is as follows:
Home Manager should now be active and available in your user
environment.
5. If you do not plan on having Home Manager manage your shell
configuration then you must source the
```
"$HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh"
```
file in your shell configuration. Unfortunately, we currently only
support POSIX.2-like shells such as [Bash][] or [Z shell][].
For example, if you use Bash then add
```bash
. "$HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh"
```
to your `~/.profile` file.
Note, because the `HM_PATH` variable above points to the live Home
Manager repository you will automatically get updates whenever you
build a new generation. If you dislike automatic updates then perform
@ -240,8 +258,10 @@ in your system configuration and
in your Home Manager configuration.
[Bash]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
[Nix]: https://nixos.org/nix/
[NixOS]: https://nixos.org/
[Nixpkgs]: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/
[nixAllowedUsers]: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#conf-allowed-users
[nixosAllowedUsers]: https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/options.html#opt-nix.allowedUsers
[Z shell]: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/