Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> That said, I understand your concern.  What about changing the message
> to:
>
>   You might need to run:
>
>      . …/etc/profile
>
>   Alternately, you can define the following environment variables:
>
>      …
>
> Too verbose?  Confusing?

Personally I like what you've proposed.  On a related note, I dislike
that the suggestions do not include absolute paths.  I don't want to put
"my-profile/bin" in my PATH; I usually want to put
"$(pwd)/my-profile/bin" on my path.  If you follow the suggestions when
using relative paths, things break as soon as you cd somewhere else.

-- 
Chris