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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: exec-path and PATH
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:25 -0400
> 
> > Maybe we should consider the possibility to automatically set PATH
> > from exec-path each time Emacs invokes a subprocess, because this
> > issue comes up time and again in gnu.emacs.help.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea, although there are some directories in
> exec-path which I think should not be transferred to PATH
> (e.g. /usr/lib/emacs/23.2/i486-linux-gnu).  Not sure how best to do that.

What harm could be done if those directories are added to PATH?