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Subject: | Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH |
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Date: | Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:17:01 +0100 |
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From: | "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut DOT karlowski AT ish DOT de> |
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Am 08.12.2015, 22:01 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz: > Helmut Karlowski writes: >> I set C:/cygwin/usr/bin in my windows-environment. Now /etc/profile >> always adds /usr/bin to PATH resulting in /usr/bin being twice in my >> cygwin-PATH. >> >> The attached patch fixes this. > > I tend to reject this patch. The purpose of the default profile is to > put those two paths in front, while with your patch they could end up > anywhere. If you think that's OK for you, then you can already do that, Not if they have not been present in the windows-path before. I personally want to keep the order I have in my windows-path, but tastes may differ. But the actual reason for me to change profile was that I had /usr/bin twice in my cygwin-path. That can be avoided with the original profile if the user also sets CYGWIN_NOWINPATH to something in the windows-environment, which I escaped me before, and then I would also have to set /usr/local/bin in windows. I find this overcomplicated for the user. To force /usr/bin first in PATH would be doable of course. > but I don't think that's a good default. > >> It also sets SHELL if not yet set and avoids a call of hostname. > > Can you tell me in which circumstances this happens and why this is a > problem? SHELL is supposed to be the user preference, so I don't think > /etc/profile should try to second-guess it. /etc/profile is run before ~/.profile, and if that does not set SHELL there will be none. -Helmut -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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