Mac OS neXt also provides for a file:
$HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist. .If it's not present you can create
it and its hidden directory. Contents are environment variables that
you would like defined even if you haven't opened a Terminal.app
session. AppleScript's do shell script command, for instance will not
run your startup scripts for your chosen shell.
In environment.plist you can define
PERL5LIB as /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
without adding whatever else was in $PERL5LIB. The result is
independent of your choice of shell. Apple has published a note on
it somewhere. Concatenations to existing environment variables will
not work.
Watch out for some errant scripts in /etc/ that once overwrote $PATH
when it was redefined in environment.plist.
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