From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.x9cf2njrofd6j1@frascati.upc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oae0venj.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
Am 08.12.2015, 22:01 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz:
> Helmut Karlowski writes:
>> I set C:/cygwin/usr/bin in my windows-environment. Now /etc/profile
>> always adds /usr/bin to PATH resulting in /usr/bin being twice in my
>> cygwin-PATH.
>>
>> The attached patch fixes this.
>
> I tend to reject this patch. The purpose of the default profile is to
> put those two paths in front, while with your patch they could end up
> anywhere. If you think that's OK for you, then you can already do that,
Not if they have not been present in the windows-path before. I personally
want to keep the order I have in my windows-path, but tastes may differ.
But the actual reason for me to change profile was that I had /usr/bin
twice in my cygwin-path. That can be avoided with the original profile if
the user also sets CYGWIN_NOWINPATH to something in the
windows-environment, which I escaped me before, and then I would also have
to set /usr/local/bin in windows. I find this overcomplicated for the user.
To force /usr/bin first in PATH would be doable of course.
> but I don't think that's a good default.
>
>> It also sets SHELL if not yet set and avoids a call of hostname.
>
> Can you tell me in which circumstances this happens and why this is a
> problem? SHELL is supposed to be the user preference, so I don't think
> /etc/profile should try to second-guess it.
/etc/profile is run before ~/.profile, and if that does not set SHELL
there will be none.
-Helmut
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-08 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-06 22:47 Helmut Karlowski
2015-12-08 21:01 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-08 21:17 ` Helmut Karlowski [this message]
2015-12-08 21:21 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-08 21:26 ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-12-08 21:31 ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-12-08 21:59 ` Helmut Karlowski
2016-09-04 11:32 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-05 4:08 ` Doug Henderson
2016-09-05 17:57 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-05 18:13 ` Vince Rice
2016-09-05 19:07 ` Achim Gratz
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