For the sake of history, here is a comment posted on Disqus
(discontinued on bounga.org) from onee:

> From the launchctl man manual, "The /etc/launchd.conf file is no
> longer consulted for subcommands to run during early boot time; this
> functionality was removed for security considerations.",which means
> that /etc/launchd.conf file is no longer work. (I use macOS Monterey)

This is true in newest MacOS system and I updated the blog post
according to it.

Now you should use `etc/paths` to specify available paths to your GUI apps.
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