Final steps for 1.6

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-12-07 00:17:04 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> 	My list of outstanding TODOs for the 1.6 release is almost empty after 
> finishing what I committed  in r31774, directly to the release branch: a 
> rethought and rewritten postflight script to add PATH and MANPATH 
> settings as appropriate to the user's shell configuration file. Please 
> read the commit log and test the script, reporting any findings you have.

When will this be modified exactly? There's should be a confirmation
from the user in any case.

FYI, modifying the .profile will not necessarily work with zsh (this is
quite complex, see its man page).

Also, it's a bad idea to modify $MANPATH as this may break things in
particular if the user usually has an empty $MANPATH (in which case
the man path is automatically built from $PATH -- this is much better
to get consistent paths).

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