cruftiness in gnome-config

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

John just noticed that GNOME_PATH did not behave as other
paths do.  Things later in the path dominate.

gnome-config :
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
for extra in `echo $GNOME_PATH  | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
    module_dirs="$extra/lib:$module_dirs"
done
for extra in `echo $GNOME_LIBCONFIG_PATH  | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
    module_dirs="$extra:$module_dirs"
done
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This chunk of gnome-config appears to be the culprit that reverses
the list.  Several questions.
1) Was this intentional (if so, what we you smoking?)
2) does anything depend on this ?
3) Is it worth the risk of (2) to fix it ?

Thanks