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

[James Berry]

On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:16 AM, Adam Mercer wrote:

> 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.

Yes, that's certainly a possibility, but I'm not sure it's worth the  
time and added complexity. Can you explain your objection to the  
double paths, other than on aesthetic grounds? ;)

James