I think only the pkg installers do that - and they're supposed to not edit the $PATH if $prefix is already in there.
(ie if you upgrade using `port selfupdate` I don't think you have that problem). Or am I mistaken? > On Jan 28, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: >> On 28 Jan 2017, at 16:37, Christopher Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It would be better yet if whatever it is that does this first checks to see >> in the path it is about to add is already in the users PATH, and does not >> add it again if already there… > > That would be an improvement. > > I would also like a way to say never edit my .bash_profile. > Maybe a comment line specially formated. > > # MacPorts: no-edit-path > > Barry > >> Chris >> >>> On 28 Jan 2017, at 4:31 pm, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: >>> >>> I want to be able to stop MacPorts Installation from editing my >>> .bash_profile. >>> As it happens I already set all the env var that are needed my self. >>> >>> Is there a “do-not-edit-bash-profile” settings somewhere? >>> >>> So far I have 3 sets of the settings in the same file. >>> >>> Barry -- Daniel J. Luke
