[hnbear]

I've used a Mac and linux for 20+ years and never knew about this. Maybe coming to OS X from linux meant I never bothered to ask the official way to set a path.

How did you find out about it? This feels like a hidden secret.

Is that directory maintained across OS updates?

[soneil]

I don't think I've ever lost a setting from there. the manpage (path_helper) was last updated 2007, so I think it's fair to say it's not a very dynamic corner of the OS.

[hnbear]

I was worried more sometimes the OS will just reset everything in /etc (and other places) on reinstall