Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#11373 closed defect (fixed)

Documentation misdirection

Reported by: krunk7@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Low Milestone:
Component: guide Version:
Keywords: Cc: markd@…
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Description

In the installation instructions under, Setting Up Your Shell Environement the following suggestion is made:

Other profile files may conflict with ~./profile and should be removed, so remove any occurrances of these files: ~/.bash_login ~/.bash_profile

I would like to point out that many, many of the users of macports are not entirely unix savvy. For example, the researchers I support I would call at best beginners (on average). Thus many things like shell environements are either set up for them or put together, but poorly understood.

Macports are then installed usually by a peer or on suggestion by an OS software provider.

For these users, the above suggestion would result in a clobbering of their primary environment file.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by markd@…

Cc: markd@… added
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

I've amended the documention on the Wiki.

comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by jmpp@…

Component: guidewww

comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by jmpp@…

Component: wwwguide
Milestone: Website & Documentation

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by (none)

Milestone: Website & Documentation

Milestone Website & Documentation deleted

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