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Expand Windows PATH tag to Unix-Based and Inspired OSes #221

Open Kronifer opened 2 years ago

Kronifer commented 2 years ago

Currently, we only have a tag for the windows PATH variable. I suggest we expand this tag to explain what the path is, and maybe explain or give a guide on how to alter it.

wookie184 commented 2 years ago

I don't think we should extend the windows path tag as it's already quite long. We could add a separate tag to explain how to modify the PATH, although that differs depending on OS so we could end up with quite a long tag, and i'm not sure how useful it would actually be.

One option would be to have:

I'm not sure what the use of a tag explaining how to change the PATH on a unix system would be in the context of Python (as I don't use a unix system). Is it common for users to have a Python install on linux but not to be able to access it because it isn't on PATH? From what i'm aware, the main recommended ways of installing Python would be through a package manager, or pyenv, both of which would usually handle PATH modification for you.

Kronifer commented 2 years ago

@wookie184 I'd probably just do the path tag