Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
- Subject: Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
- From: "Andrew J. Hesford" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:10:13 -0600
On Nov 18, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
Anyway, the paths in the man pages can only be added to /etc/paths.d/
X11 or /etc/manpaths.d/X11 as no attention is paid to other files in
the directory.
Even were attention paid to other files, the results would be wrong
for Fink or MacPorts users when installing applications that replace
Apple versions. The search order is important.
What do you mean, other files are ignored? I've created a bunch of
files in there. It adds them to the path as appropriate. And the
search order is alphabetical, so if the user wants to specify a
particular order, he can exploit the sorting by properly setting names
for the scripts.
--
Andrew J. Hesford <email@hidden>
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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