-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
Date: 2 February 2016 at 16:28:50

> The problem with paths.d is that it adds path entries *after* the standard
> ones, whereas users tend to expect that e.g. /opt/local/bin/python
> "overrides" Apple's /usr/bin/python. So MacPorts edits your .bash_profile
> or .profile to prepend /opt/local/bin to $PATH.

Ah. That explains it; thanks. And that doesn’t work for me because I don’t use 
bash for my login shell, which would be why I made my own hack.

An alternative would have been to modify /etc/paths instead? Or is that too 
global, or something?

– Harald
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