PATH variable in .zshenv or .zshrc

Question

My setup is zsh 5.0.5 in arch linux

I have set the PATH variable as below in .zshenv

typeset -U path
path=(~/bin $path)
DW=$HOME/Downloads

Answer 1

I just encountered this problem myself, and the real answer is that Zsh on Arch sources /etc/profile – which overwrites and exports PATH – after having sourced ~/.zshenv.

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh#Configuration_files