dvdrip confusion

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 27, 2013, at 13:43, macports at metaspasm.org wrote:

> There is a ticket filed for this, #40972.  IMO if the postinstall doesn't
> softlink the executables into /opt/local/bin it should at least add that
> directory to the PATH.  I can't think of a good reason to require the user to
> do that manually.


On Oct 27, 2013, at 13:54, bunk3m <bunk3m at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm old and slow to learn but I thought that when you install something with Macports it sets it up for you.  It is what I like about the project and why I try to help a bit when I come across a problem.  All other apps seem to update the path or other links if necessary.  So I thought this might be a bug.


Ports never modify your PATH, and we don’t want them to start doing so now. There’s no code in MacPorts base or in any ports that I’m aware of that modifies your PATH or anything else in your shell startup file.

The only time MacPorts modifies your shell startup file is when you install MacPorts itself using the installer package: it adds /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin to the beginning of the PATH if the PATH does not already contain them. This code is in the installer package postflight script:

https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight#L241