Those libs are added to the global path when the libdirs are loaded globally.  
Its from an old hack.  Libraries should really be loaded local to each path, 
then that would make those all go away.  That's a bigger project that I plan on 
working on, but I haven't had the time yet.

.hc

On Dec 16, 2011, at 11:28 AM, <martin.pe...@sympatico.ca> 
<martin.pe...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I have 29 paths in the dialog that comes up when I click Edit->Preferences, 
> one of which is TrueType font and the rest are seemingly arbitrary libs from 
> extra.
> Where do they come from? (This is Pd 0.43.1-extended 20111213 on Debian)
> What's the use of adding to it if they are not saved on exit?
> 
> Martin
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I've dropped support for flatspace since it was a kludge that has been 
> > replaced by other things. There is a better popen in the library 'moonlib'. 
> > I've had good luck with [motex/system].
> > 
> > As for preferences, I recommend setting the Audio and MIDI settings in the 
> > patch using the 'mediasettings' library or [hcs/get-audio-dialog]. For 
> > Startup prefs, those have been removed from Pd-extended, load libraries 
> > using [import] in the patch. And for the Path prefs, add paths using the 
> > new [path] object.
> > 
> > .hc
> > 
> > On Dec 16, 2011, at 8:50 AM, rolf meesters wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > hello list,
> > > 
> > > in the latest 0.43 nightly-build for XP
> > > i can add something to the preferences but it doesn;t keep.
> > > 
> > > and i'm missing flatspace (especially popen).
> > > is that on purpose?
> > > 
> > > gr,rolf
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