Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

[Barry Scott]

> On 4 Feb 2017, at 18:53, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org <mailto:ryandesign at macports.org>> wrote:
> > It depends on the order in your /etc/paths. If I put it first, it is first. The advantage of /etc/paths is it is applied even to the graphical environment, not just when running a login shell.
> 
> Oh, I was thinking of /etc/paths.d
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/24105 <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/24105>
> 
> 
> Right. The problem with /etc/paths is Apple can and will (or at least used to, and I would not trust it) smack it back to their default whenever they feel like.

Editing a system wide setting would have to come with a option to disable it.

The side effects on server process could be break them.



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