Doc: DSC_RESOURCE_PATH
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We should make clear that DSC_RESOURCE_PATH is intended to be ephemeral (not persisted) and also ONLY affects resource manifest discovery, not exe discovery. This means that if a client/consumer wants full control of discovery of resource manifests and also exes that are used, they should just set PATH to exactly what they want when they spawn dsc.exe (or combine with DSC_RESOURCE_PATH to control both).
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3.2.0-preview.3
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