Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri May 16 12:14:00 GMT 2014


On May 15 13:47, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 05/15/2014 09:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Hmm.  Interesting enough, the current /etc/man.conf already contains
> >/usr/ssl/man.  How long is it doing that already?  If I had known that,
> >I'd removed the /etc/profile.d/openssl.* files long ago :|
> 
> I'm not sure exactly but a quick look in the Cygwin email archives shows
> a reference from 2005 with it.  We were very forward-thinking back then. ;-)

It does?  Did I miss it?  Oh well.

Whatever, it looks like MANPATH can really go away.  Achim, do your worst.


Corinna

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