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I peeked in my .zprofile and the contents are:

eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
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eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

That seems transparently silly (lines 2-3 seem pointless), but in the spirit of Chesterton's fence... Is there any reason to keep this as-is?

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  • Is anything else in your .zprofile? Commented Mar 11 at 3:13
  • No, the three lines constitute the whole file Commented Mar 11 at 7:52
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    Would guess that some program added it without any guard to see if it was already present. Usually programs are better about at least leaving a comment that they did so e.g. # installed by such-and-such. Commented Mar 11 at 11:47

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I would remove the last two lines.

Don’t overthink this one as it won’t do good things to your $PATH.

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    Got me to check out what the eval actually does, and taught me about the meaning of PATH_HELPER_ROOT for /usr/libexec/path_helper. Basically it tells path_helper to look at /opt/homebrew/etc/paths instead of /etc/paths. Commented Mar 10 at 18:19

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