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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:57:13 JST Julia Evans

   i was trying to explain how you know what directory to add to your PATH when using a new installer (npm, cargo, homebrew, bundler, go, etc) and it was way more difficult to explain than I thought. it feels like

   - ideally you remember from last time
   - or the tool prints out directions the first time you use it (but never again)
   - or you look in the docs which is NOT as easy as it seems (I tried to find it and it was hard!)
   - or you go to stack overflow which will probably get you there

   • Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 repeated this.
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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 07:17:17 JST Julia Evans

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     kind of makes me want to write a "how to add a directory to your PATH" blog post, which seems silly because it feels like a very basic thing that someone should have explained already but also if I search for how to add a directory to your PATH, the explanations do not feel very clear or complete (a lot of them assume you're using bash for example)