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The issue is trivial to diagnose and resolve if you understand the basics of shell startup and how Nix relies on bog-standard Unix features like PATH. But it's
by pxc 3y ago
The issue is trivial to diagnose and resolve if you understand the basics of shell startup and how Nix relies on bog-standard Unix features like PATH.
But it's a real annoyance, and the kind of thing that could turn off or confuse new and casual users. And workarounds like this are not unusual on macOS, where upgrades verge on developer-hostile and user-expected behaviors are often impossible without hacks.
- josephcsible 3y agoYou mean it's trivial to work around. Only Apple can truly resolve it.
- pxc 3y agoRight, it's trivial to restore the mangled configuration files, but permanently resolving the issue of OS upgrades blasting away user configuration files is on Apple.