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Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?
- From: Mikhail Usenko <cygwin at inbox dot ru>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:09:31 +0300
- Subject: Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?
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On Sat, 17 May 2014 10:37:30 +0200
Achim Gratz <...> wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Whatever, it looks like MANPATH can really go away. Achim, do your worst.
>
> Done.
>
Besides defining MANPATH (and the other variables such as INFOPATH and PATH which can be modified by the user's .bash_profile) /etc/profile also did export the MANPATH variable.
Now it does not and I suppose that user's skeleton file /etc/skel/.bash_profile should provide user-defined MANPATH pro-forma as an exported environment variable or else it will have no effect.
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Mike
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