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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: bug#18698: Our WindowMaker wrapper pollutes PATH in the entire X
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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:48:49 -0400
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We install a wrapper script around WindowMaker that prepends
/gnu/store/XXX-windowmaker-XXX/bin to $PATH.  This setting is propagated
to all subprocesses in the entire X session, which is suboptimal.  It
would be nice to find another solution, preferably by using absolute
pathnames when launching subprocesses run by WindowMaker.

      Mark