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: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:57:53 -0800
On Nov 19, 2007 1:21 AM, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
> Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> []
> > 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.
Thus, the title of my bug report:
"path_helper should not set MANPATH"
Cheers,
-n8
--
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->
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