macports installation vs 10.5.1/Xcode 3.0?

[Rainer Müller]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 18:47, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> 
>> Ah.  I don't know what the "right" way of doing things is, but after 
>> poking around I added a file, /etc/manpaths.d/Macports the contents of 
>> which are
>>
>>  /opt/local/share/man
>>
>> which seemed to solve that problem for me.
>>
>> Would that be a better approach than trying to edit one user's .profile ?
> 
> That discussion has also already been had at length on the list. I 
> believe that strategy is being looked at in MacPorts trunk.

Paths in /etc/manpaths.d and /etc/paths.d are always added at the end of 
   MANPATH and PATH. Therefore, installs by MacPorts will not override 
the default Mac OS X installation. As it is not possible to prepend new 
paths, this option is rather useless for us.

Rainer