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Re: /etc/profile


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:18:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like
> cmd or notepad stop working.  That would be a disaster.
> I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check
> stuff out in git to see what's going on, but if the proposed change just
> makes it possible for purists to remove the Windows PATH from the Cygwin
> one however that's great.  Otherwise, removing the Windows path entirely
> really won't please very many people.

ACK. I'll keep PATH untouched and see if there are other ways to offer this
functionality as an option.

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