What the heck is /pkg?
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Recently, while troubleshooting a PATH issue, I noticed an entry for /pkg/env/global/bin. At first, I worried that something had gone horribly wrong. Turns out, this is part of macOS 27.0… though no one is sure what it’s for yet.
  • lobsters__matth_d44f@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    19 days ago

    the OS has included a path_helper utility. This reads entries from /etc/paths as well as from any files in the /etc/paths.d directory. While one could potentially take advantage of this system, I (and I’d guess most others) handle adding new PATH entries using the .zshrc file, or similar

    I tried to use path_helper once, because it seems like a good system. The issue that I realized upon attempting to edit these files is that they are root-owned system-level files. User-level path management needs to continue using shell files (.zshenv in my setup).

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