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From: TJ Luoma <tj@xxxxxx>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: root's path
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:52:36 -0400
Cc: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>, "zsh-users@xxxxxxx" <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
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On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:22 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Absolutely not, if you set PATH from *env, it makes it impossible to
> inherit the PATH from the parent process' environment, even in
> scripts, which will break a lot of things. The path should only be set
> once on login of the current session, ie in zprofile if zsh is your
> login shell, otherwise in the startup file for your login shell.

Fwiw, Zsh on the Mac inits its path from /etc/zshenv

The global environmental variable has to be set _somewhere_ otherwise
there's nothing for shells to inherit.

TjL

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