Re: Inherit the path environment from .bash_profile (Mac OS 10.5)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.08.2010 um 16:04 schrieb Jim Crossley:

> Peter Dyballa writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > A different method is composing a file ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.  
> > It
> > sets the environment for all processes at boot time. Read more here:
>
> Offtopic, sorry, but speaking of environment.plist, I was shocked to
> find out there's no way to do substitution in a plist file.  Hence,  
> you
> can't define variables in terms of other variables, which makes that
> file needlessly verbose and error prone.


Yes. One has to be aware of what one did. OTOH, it's probably  
sufficient for a dozen *basic* settings, PATH, MANPATH, INFOPATH,  
LANG, LC_CTYPE...

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