X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_PGP_SIGNED,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:55:08 +0200 From: David Sastre Medina To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /etc/profile Message-ID: <20120822205507.GA23279@pris.crapsteak.org> References: <20120822191002.GA5467@pris.crapsteak.org> <50353D71.9000306@dancol.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50353D71.9000306@dancol.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:13:37PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 8/22/12 12:10 PM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:16:28AM +0000, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> I'm removing the Windows PATH in my startup scripts since there's noth= ing in > >> there that I think should be accessible from Cygwin. > >=20 > > All three changes will be available in the next release (profile_d > > modification taken from your last version in this thread). >=20 > Are you sure that's actually a good idea? I don't agree with this logic: > 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. I for one never start windows programs from within a shell, with the exception of firefox, and for that I registered an entry in the alternatives system (x-www-browser), however, I take your advice and I'll give this a second thought, and also would like to hear from others' opnion wrt to this. Obviously, ORIGINAL_PATH (as proposed in Achim's patch) would still hold the native Windows' PATH, so it'd be very easy to include a (commented?) line using it, so it would be easy to switch it: #PATH=3D"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:${ORIGINAL_PATH}" --=20 Primary key fingerprint: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56 --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlA1RygACgkQ95urBFKZ7FZeeAD/dz3BgVIQGbPQDEi2ZU1VStXg E8ihtd9Tkbhx2CPi898A/1Bnxf3TUM8Na2vRsqecB4zfduIMef9JyJlQ7UmpKO0S =p1AY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--