On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:16:01AM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Kyle McDonald wrote: > >Why isn't updating the default PATH to include these other directories > >satisfactory? > >Why would a user need to know exactly where the tool lives if it's > >found and runs when they type 'make'? > Part of the reason is that $PATH is not always on the lhs of assignments > to PATH. Many folk just set it > absolutely. Its not the same.
I lied. One more off-topic post: a psetenv(1) proc util might be a nice way to deal with PATH management in a shell-neutral, dot-file avoiding way. Nico --
