A few weeks ago, I asked a similar question on the Discussion, and never got a clear answer. I didn't like the huge number of Windows paths in the msys2 PATH. So I did an experiment. I added a line at the top of /etc/profile to clear PATH before it gets built, so none of the Windows paths included:
PATH= I've been using this since with no apparent problems (at least no problems due to missing Windows paths). If one accepts the wiki at face value, I assume there must be some bad effect of omitting all Windows paths, though never spelled out, so it seems a better approach might be to say at top of /etc/profile: PATH=C:\\Windows\\system32 To help me and others better understand this issue, can anyone explain what kinds of things fail if windows paths are not in msys2 PATH? Thanks, Daniel On 11/12/2015 1:33 AM, David Macek wrote: > On 12. 11. 2015 10:21, Baruch Burstein wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The wiki says: >> >> When using the shells, try to remove as many entries from PATH as you >> can, ideally only leaving something like |C:\Windows\system32| >> >> >> How do I do this? If I set PATH in the .bash_profile file, it will overwrite >> also the things added by msys2, like /usr/bin etc. Where can I set the PATH >> variable that is passed from Windows? If it makes a difference, I can use >> either the standard batch files or the new launchers. > > I used to employ a separate batch file that was similar to the official ones, > but also changed the PATH. You can do that, or you can just edit the official > batch files (but they'll be overwritten on the next update of the filesystem > package). > > For the new launchers, you can add a PATH=... line into the .ini files. In > the next release, there will be a new PATH line template (commented out by > default). The .ini files shouldn't be overwritten upon update. > >> ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı > > ˙pooƃ ʇsnɾ ǝɹ,noʎ ɹO > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Msys2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
