/etc/paths

[Michael]

On 2015-02-06, at 10:25 AM, Luc Bourhis <luc_j_bourhis at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On 6 Feb 2015, at 19:21, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Shame on me! You are right. This is a new computer and /etc/paths did not
>>> get copied from the old one as I thought. Sorry for the noise and thanks for
>>> your patience!
>> 
>> /etc/paths? 
>> This is the first I've seen any indication of this. Where is this documented?
>> Is this the apple-approved way to add stuff to PATH for programs run by launchD?
> 
> Not launchd, no. It's for the shell and it helps with MANPATH too. "man path_helper" for the details.

Interesting. I'm surprised MacPorts doesn't stuff something in there.