WordNet environment variables

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 18:43, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote:

> > MacPorts itself does a one-time modification to your profile to edit the
> PATH, so that you can more easily run MacPorts and the software it installs.
>
> I knew about this modification, which is why I was surprised that the
> WordNet environment variables weren't also set by MacPorts; but I
> hadn't realised that this was the only modification of this kind that
> MacPorts makes.
>

Keep in mind that

1) MacPorts would be very difficult to use without that modification, so
there's not really much of a way around it;
2) The choice of whether to modify ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist vs.
~/.profile vs. some other mechanism is controlled to some extent by what
will be using the WordNet libraries, so it can't really be made for you.
 (The environment.plist file controls the environment seen by Aqua GUI
applications; ~/.profile is seen only in terminals.)

Linux actually has a similar divide if you use something like gdm, but
solves it at a different level:  the system-wide /etc/profile.d directory
for per-package environment modifications.  Different desktop environments
also have different means of injecting environment variables at the same
level as OS X's environment.plist, but last time I looked it was different
for Gnome and KDE and I don't know if e.g. LXDE has one at all.

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