Cannot seem to update PATH using ~/.config/environment.d

[equaeghe]

I want to add my local bindir (~/.local/bin) to my path in my new setup (old KDE one works fine, but uses a KDE-specific file, plasma-workspace/env/path.sh). Now, I'd like to move to putting such manual environment definitions in ~/.config/environment.d, in various conf files there. I already have a few there and they work fine. Now, I added on to update my path:

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cat ~/.config/environment.d/05-path.conf 
PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH

and this does not get picked up, not after running systemctl --user daemon-reload, not after a reboot. I did check that the path definition itself is fine:

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echo $HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
/home/equaeghe/.local/bin:/home/equaeghe/.config/carapace/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/21/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/20/bin

Any help getting my path set as it should appreciated.

[b11n]

It depends on how your shell is getting started:

Applicability

Environment variables exported by the user service manager (systemd --user instance started in the user@uid.service system service) are passed to any services started by that service manager. In particular, this may include services which run user shells. For example in the GNOME environment, the graphical terminal emulator runs as the gnome-terminal-server.service user unit, which in turn runs the user shell, so that shell will inherit environment variables exported by the user manager. For other instances of the shell, not launched by the user service manager, the environment they inherit is defined by the program that starts them. Hint: in general, systemd.service(5) units contain programs launched by systemd, and systemd.scope(5) units contain programs launched by something else.

You might find it easier to set your path in your ~/.bash_profile as well, if that's the shell you're using.

[equaeghe]

Solved, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/969230.