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Re: Don't explicitly set MANPATH
Authored by: sjk on Sep 28, '05 09:45:00PM

Your comments are informative and a helpful warning but the "Don't" in the title seems too strong since there can be valid reasons to explicitly set MANPATH instead of modifying /etc/manpath.config.

Maybe you don't want to (or can't) modify manpath.config and would rather set MANPATH than run "man -M path ..." commands. You could use the output from "manpath -d" as the starting point for constructing a customized MANPATH, keeping manpath.config generic so there's no risk of an local customizations you've made to it being clobbered by an Apple update (although quite unlikely for that particular file).



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