From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22575 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2012 06:19:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 22562 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Aug 2012 06:19:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sitemail2.everyone.net (HELO imta-38.everyone.net) (216.200.145.36) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:18:50 +0000 Received: from pps.filterd (m0004960 [127.0.0.1]) by imta-38.everyone.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with SMTP id q7N6InKG030354 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:18:49 -0700 X-Eon-Dm: dm0206 Received: by dm0206.mta.everyone.net (EON-AUTHRELAY2 - ae18963c) id dm0206.5035a9f2.3fd14 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:18:49 -0700 X-Eon-Sig: AQMH8HNQNctJGf/A2wIAAAAB,44b2561109fcdc0bde1ce7cafb9e9c32 Message-ID: <5035CB3B.7000206@mvseac.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:29:00 -0000 From: L Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120715 Firefox/14.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /etc/profile References: <20120822191002.GA5467@pris.crapsteak.org> <50353D71.9000306@dancol.org> <20120822205507.GA23279@pris.crapsteak.org> <20120822211831.GA13946@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <87sjbe6tnb.fsf@Rainer.invalid> In-Reply-To: <87sjbe6tnb.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.7.7855,1.0.260,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-08-23_01:2012-08-23,2012-08-23,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1203120001 definitions=main-1208220377 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00538.txt.bz2 Achim Gratz wrote: > Christopher Faylor writes: >> I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like >> cmd or notepad stop working. That would be a disaster. > > Yes, and nobody proposed otherwise. > >> I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check >> stuff out in git to see what's going on, but if the proposed change just >> makes it possible for purists to remove the Windows PATH from the Cygwin >> one however that's great. > > OK, here it is again in a nutshell, it has two parts: > > 1. instead of adding the windows PATH in /etc/profile (which doesn't > need it _at all_), just record it there into ORIGINAL_PATH. But I already have my own ORIGINAL_PATH set for my cygwin environment for my own use No joy!! LA -- 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