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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: man incredibly slow because it scans for share directory in PATH??
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn33tv74.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57605904.8080703@tlinx.org> (Linda Walsh's message of "Tue, 14	Jun 2016 12:20:36 -0700")

Linda Walsh writes:
> Achim Gratz wrote:
>> with the POSIX shells you shouldn't have a MANPATH variable set at all
>> unless you did that yourself in one of your configuration files.
> ---
> 	Not exactly sure where it came from (looks like an older
> version of some cygwin package)

Well, it says "base-files 3.9-3", so this is from …wait… December 2009.

> I added some unrelated debug stuff
> that came from my linux system).

Now, when you do that, it prevents any later releases from replacing
your file with the newer version in /etc/defaults and you're expected to
check the differences yourself and either switch back to the default
version or carry whatever changes you've made.


Regards,
Achim.
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-14 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-12 10:50 Riedel,Till (TM)
2016-06-12 14:41 ` Andrey Repin
2016-06-12 17:18   ` Riedel,Till (TM)
2016-06-12 17:22     ` Achim Gratz
2016-06-13 19:38       ` Linda Walsh
2016-06-14  7:45         ` Achim Gratz
2016-06-14 22:22           ` Linda Walsh
2016-06-15  4:58             ` Achim Gratz [this message]

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