Where should non-macports sw be installed? (Was: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 12, 2014, at 18:24, Clemens Lang wrote:
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>> export MANPATH="/opt/local/share/man:${MANPATH}"
>> export INFOPATH="/opt/local/share/info:${INFOPATH}"
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> As far as I know those aren't used on newer versions of OS X and are automatically derived from the value of $PATH.

As far as I know they are used if you set them, but if you don’t set them they are derived from $PATH so there is most often no need to set them.