[Xquartz-dev] env variables and launchd problem

John B Brown jbb at vcn.com
Tue Mar 22 14:14:06 PDT 2011



Dave Ray wrote:
> John B. Brown wrote:
>> How does MacPorts install with it's path corrections if you have no .profile or 
>> .bash_profile? What you set in your $HOME is what sets your actually running 
>> environment. Why would you not use your own environment setup instead of some 
>> one size fits all Apple offering?
> 
> I am not using MacPorts or Fink. I have never needed to. 
> My apps are installed in /usr/local and I have never noticed a problem.
> If MacPorts or Fink are making "corrections" to fix this problem, I want to learn how to replicate those fixes in a non-MacPorts environment, and document it.
> I am not attached in any way to the Apple /etc/profile. I just never knew there was an problem with it (and still not convinced there is.)
> MacPorts and Fink are not required to use XQuartz.
> I am trying to keep changes to the bare minimum needed.
> 
> David
> 
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	Keeping change to a bare minimum is an admirable pursuit. My particular bugbear 
is the bzip2 libraries and the Apple refusal to remove the broken version 
numbers from the 'fixed' binary for bzip2. 10.6.7 claims a fix for both bzip2 
and clamav in the server but the bzip2 binary still responds with:

(8): % bzip2 --version
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.  Version 1.0.5, 10-Dec-2007.


	How is that for a weird change result?

	Shalom,

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