On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:28, Sam Kuper <[email protected]> wrote:

> In any case, shouldn't MacPorts set them automatically (and,
> presumably, also unset them if MacPorts is later used to uninstall
> WordNet)?
>

That means editing people's shell profiles (which might be ~/.profile or
~/.bash_profile, or potentially others) or possibly
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist on install and again on removal.  This is
generally not a good idea; there are too many ways for it to go wrong,
because it's not designed to be edited that way.

(Linux can do it not because the files are different but because the
systemwide versions of the files specifically check for additional settings
files; OS X doesn't do this and editing Apple's startup files is not a good
idea because the worst case failure mode is you run Software Update and
thereafter no longer can log in.)

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brandon s allbery                                      [email protected]
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