Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:47:39PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > >>Let me see if I understand what is going on here: >> >>We are debeating whether to: >> >>1) Modify /etc/profile, which is not installed via a package, but is >>created directly by setup.exe. >> >>2) Add two scripts, one for bash-style shells and one for c-shell-style >>shells to /etc/profile.d/. These scripts are processed by >>/etc/profile. We would add this new scripts to an XFree86 package, >>probably XFree86-bin, and we would install these scripts via a >>post-install script if they were not already present (so we do not >>overwrite modifications). >> >>Of all the arguments for/against the two methods, so far only one seems >>to be a sticking point that essentially decides how we will do this: >> >> There is no guarantee that the sub-script in /etc/profile.d/ that >>adds /usr/X11R6/bin to the path will be executed before some other shell >>script, that may be added at a later date to /etc/profile.d/, that >>requires that the path to the X11R6 binaries already be set. In order >>to allow other scripts in /etc/profile.d/ to assume that the path to the >>X11R6 binaries is known, we must set the path to the binaries in >>/etc/profile before the /etc/profile.d/ scripts are processed. > > > I don't know what this "other" script in /etc/profile.d might be, but > if it is a problem for the "other" script, it could easily include > /etc/profile.d/add_x11_path (or whatever) to add the script to ensure > that the path was properly set. > > So, I think that adding an appropriate file to /etc/profile.d makes > more sense. Then people who don't have /usr/bin/X11R6 don't have > a spurious check for the directory in their /etc/profile. > > cgf
That sounds even more reasonable. No one has suggested that yet. One question though... are there any known packages that put a script in /etc/profile.d/ that expect the path to the X11R6 binaries to already be set, but that do not include some X11R6 path-setting script? We would have to modify any such scripts, if we ever encounter them, to include our X11R6 path-setting script. That doesn't seem like a horrible trade-off. Okay, go with the new scripts in /etc/profile.d/. Jehan - you sent in these scripts before, right? Could you send them again? Thanks. Harold
