X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:45:28 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <407990256.20120823004528@mtu-net.ru> To: Achim Gratz , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /etc/profile In-Reply-To: <87ehmyllon.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <20120822191002.GA5467@pris.crapsteak.org> <50353D71.9000306@dancol.org> <87ehmyllon.fsf@Rainer.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Greetings, Achim Gratz! >> People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this >> change, basic things like "cmd" and "notepad" will fail to work. >> Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't >> think this change should go into the default startup scripts. > The change is about giving users a choice. You can now drop a script > into profile.d that just does: > PATH="${PATH}:${ORIGINAL_PATH}" The point it, I don't want this. My $PATH is set in Windows, and I do not modify it in startup scripts. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 23.08.2012, <00:44> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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