[TxMt] Re: Slow bundles

[Martin Kühl]

On 04.06.2009, at 10:05, Juho Makkonen wrote:

> Allan Odgaard wrote:
>> On 3 Jun 2009, at 22:07, Juho Makkonen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> [...]
>>> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
>>>       eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
>>> fi
>>>
>>
>> With a long PATH this one can take a _loooong_ time to execute (I
>> filed a performance bug against it), try disable/comment it.
>>
>>
>>
> This solved the problem, thanks! What is the point in those lines
> anyway, does commenting them cause any problems?

Those lines add the components defined in /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d/ 
* to your PATH, making executables there available to your shell  
processes.
The downside of disabling them is that for executables found in one of  
those directories you need to either add their component to PATH  
manually or type their full path when you want to run them.

FWIW, I’ve applied the patch at http://gist.github.com/123525 to my  
system, which takes care of the slowdowns for me. Of course you should  
backup the path_helper script beforehand, patching system scripts is  
generally not a good idea, use at your own risk and so on.

Martin