installer doesn't modify root path

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche at math.ntnu.no>
wrote:

> Okay, now I am curious. How does the macports installation manipulate the
> path? As far as I know, the above method is standard, even though it may
> not be what macports does. (If I installed that file there, I must have
> done it because it didn’t work otherwise.)


The problem with paths.d is that it adds path entries *after* the standard
ones, whereas users tend to expect that e.g. /opt/local/bin/python
"overrides" Apple's /usr/bin/python. So MacPorts edits your .bash_profile
or .profile to prepend /opt/local/bin to $PATH.

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