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How is this an insanely common task? I literally never have to dink with $PATH on Linux, and only rarely on Mac because homewbrew has decided that certain exec
by cellularmitosis 3y ago
How is this an insanely common task? I literally never have to dink with $PATH on Linux, and only rarely on Mac because homewbrew has decided that certain executables shouldn’t be linked in by default.
I think the reason you are getting pushback is that you’ve proposed a complex replacement to a simple existing solution which basically just isn’t a problem. Most developers become allergic to complexity over time, hence the response.
It sounds like your actual problem is with the homebrew project, not with $PATH.
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- h_tbob 3y agoI think you're correct that $PATH works. But I just think it makes more sense to have a more developed solution, that's all. I thought up another thing wrong with path. I think path should be configurable to search relative paths as well. So I could configure it so that it always searched node_modules/bin for executables as well. What do you think?
- cellularmitosis 2y agoDid you try putting a relative path into $PATH?