Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating $PATH variable permanently for root not working
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:06:26
Message-Id: 52CB1AB4.8030905@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating $PATH variable permanently for root not working by Tanstaafl
1 On 06/01/2014 14:28, Tanstaafl wrote:
2 > On 2014-01-05 4:14 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Head spinning yet? Just be done with all that nonsense and do this:
4 >>
5 >> Put this line as the only non-comment line in .bash_profile
6 >>
7 >> [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
8 >>
9 >> and put all your shell start-up stuff in .bashrc (moving them out of
10 >> .bash_profile if necessary
11 >>
12 >>
13 >> This way everything is still unbelievably complex but at least the
14 >> visible problems mostly just go away
15 >
16 > Wow... or rather... UGH
17 >
18 > Anyway, thanks Alan, that did indeed do the trick...
19 >
20 > :)
21 >
22 >
23 >
24
25
26 You're welcome. I figured you deserved to have the whole ugly truth for
27 your reading pleasure, with the option of a tl;dr of course ;-)
28
29 --
30 Alan McKinnon
31 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com