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

[Adam Mercer]

On 29/11/2007, James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:

> The only way to turn it off is to manually remove or modify the files
> installed by macports. Note that having the paths in your PATHs twice
> shouldn't hurt anything and probably adds minimal performance slowdown
> only in the failure case.
>
> One enhancement we could potentially make would be to not overwrite
> versions of these files. That way, if you remove their contents once,
> subsequent versions of MacPorts would not overwrite you change. The
> downside of that is that if we wanted to push out changes to these
> files, it would be less-clear how to update existing users.
>
> Comments, anyone?

Could an option be added to configure to disable installing these at
all, obviously the default should be to install them.

Cheers

Adam