Clarify PATH modifications in postflight script

https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2017-March/035532.html Submitted-By: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>
macports · Mar 22, 2017 · c9802bc · c9802bc
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diff --git a/guide/xml/installing.xml b/guide/xml/installing.xml
@@ -436,10 +436,9 @@
                 <listitem>
                     <para>Required: <varname>PATH</varname> variable</para>
 
-                    <para>This variable is set by the postflight script to append the MacPorts executable paths to the
-                        default path as shown. The MacPorts paths are appended at the front of <varname>PATH</varname>
-                        so the MacPorts libraries will take precedence over vendor-supplied libraries for ported
-                        software at runtime.</para>
+                    <para>This variable is set by the postflight script to prepend the MacPorts executable paths to the
+                        current path as shown. This puts the MacPorts paths at the front of <varname>PATH</varname>
+                        so that the MacPorts binaries will take precedence over vendor-supplied binaries.</para>
 
                     <programlisting>export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH</programlisting>