> <br>><br>><br><br>One of the things I'd
> like to suggest is that we consider<br>means for
> applications to appear in the default path
> more<br>easily than requiring users to edit their
> .*rc files.<br><br>- Bart<br>
Let me share how we solve the issue, perhaps it'll be of some (if limited)
value.
We have /etc/PATH and /etc/MANPATH. These two files simply contain a predefined
list of directories delimited by columns (":"), and information therein was
reached by a concensus, so in theory no additional modifications are needed out
of the box.
These two files are delivered via a package, together with
/etc/opt/my-stock-symbol/* scripts. These scripts do sanity checking, and read
the aforementioned files as well as handle setting the TERM variable properly.
An emergency PATH is set in the event that something goes wrong. Currently
supported are the Bourne and C-shell families, although it should be noted that
tcsh is the best and foremost supported, as it is our standard, default SHELL.
Doing `pkgadd` of the aforementioned package deliver the files and an `exec
tcsh -l` activates the changes (or logging out and logging back in).
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