manpath

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-10-27 16:43:58 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Tiger and earlier, MANPATH is empty by default and so having /opt/ 
> local/bin in PATH is sufficient. However on Leopard and I assume later, 
> MANPATH is non-empty by default so you need to add /opt/local/share/man 
> to MANPATH.

Even if MANPATH is not empty, you shouldn't do this, as this can lead
to inconsistencies. If for some reason, your MANPATH is not empty,
make sure it ends with ":" (so that default paths are added).

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