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Subject: Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?
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On Sat, 17 May 2014 10:37:30 +0200
Achim Gratz <...> wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Whatever, it looks like MANPATH can really go away.  Achim, do your worst.
> 
> Done.
> 

Besides defining MANPATH (and the other variables such as INFOPATH and PATH which can be modified by the user's .bash_profile) /etc/profile also did export the MANPATH variable.
Now it does not and I suppose  that user's skeleton file /etc/skel/.bash_profile should provide user-defined MANPATH pro-forma as an exported environment variable or else it will have no effect.

-- 
Mike

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