10:58 <LambdaDuck> __monty__: I don't think it's a question of them wanting it to come first. It's just that what "path_helper" does is to prepend those paths to PATH, so if you're running it after setting up the rest of your path, you'll get them in the beginning.

11:02 <__monty__> Yes. That should've been specifically about /etc/paths vs /etc/paths.d.

11:02 <LambdaDuck> I see

11:02 <LambdaDuck> My paths.d is empty, so I haven't seen those effects.

11:04 <__monty__> There's nothing you can add to /etc/paths.d that'll precede /etc/paths.

11:04 <LambdaDuck> I see

11:05 <__monty__> If /etc/paths wasn't a thing and they added /etc/paths.d/00-defaults instead for example, nix-darwin could easily use that setup to prepend some dirs.

11:06 <LambdaDuck> Oh, yes. That could be nice.