Added support in MacPorts base to set PATH and MANPATH automatically in Leopard

[Adam Mercer]

On 25/11/2007, James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 25, 2007, at 1:14 PM, James Berry wrote:
>
> > I just checked in some code (r31491:31492) that supplies and
> > installs spec files for the /etc/paths.d  and /etc/manpaths.d
> > directories if they are present, as they are on Leopard.
> >
> > The contents of these files are automatically added to the users
> > PATHS and MANPATHS environment variables, and should mean that we
> > don't need to configure the user's profile under Leopard. Note that
> > support for this is though path_helper(8).
>
> Note that paths added through this mechanism are added at the _end_of_
> the PATH and MANPATH variables, and so won't automatically override
> any system-supplied commands.

Is there a way to turn this off? i.e. I want to have
/opt/local/{bin,sbin} in my PATH before /usr/{bin,sbin}.  At the
moment I add these explicitly myself, but since this change
/opt/local/{bin,sbin} are in my PATH twice.

Cheers

Adam