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: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:21:08 +0100
Nathaniel Gray wrote:
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But this is exactly my point. If mactex used a normal foo/bin
foo/share/man layout in their sub-tree they wouldn't need to do
anything *but* add foo/bin to the path, whether by path_helper or
/etc/profile munging (ick). There should never be a need for a
package to mess with man.conf. Quoting from the man man page:
Thus, with the proper use of [man.conf], when you issue the command
man xyz, you get a manual page for the program that would run if you
issued the command xyz.
This is now obsolete, of course. As soon as you set MANPATH, the
man.conf automatism is not used any more. And path_helper now sets
MANPATH, so unless you explicitly *unset* MANPATH in your shell startup
scripts, the man.conf stuff is never used.
--
Martin
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