Mat Caughron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David: > > The issue of setting the proper (and non-conflicting!) shell variables is > a very important one, and that's why I'd like for packaged > installations, particularly ones depending on X11, to stick as close as > possible to the default fink install. > > >In either case, though, there is a fundamental problem of getting the user > >to include the correct thing in a .cshrc or .tcshrc file. How do you > >handle that? > > In the installer I'm now building, there is a csh file that is sourced by > adding a second line to /private/etc/csh.cshrc > This way, all users get some helpful default values in their DISPLAY and > PATH variables on login. >
You might want to look back in the mailing list archives, I think it was the fink-users list in November or December. There was an extensive discussion of the problems some users were having with .cshrc or .tcshrc type files being sourced. One of the difficulties came from installing some other software, I think it was CodeWarrior, which had added something to one of these files in a manner incompatible with fink's. This entire issue needs a lot of thought by all concerned. > There are pros and cons to putting everything in a /macgimp directory and > that's something I considered. > /sw/macgimp makes more sense to me since it would mean less clutter. > Putting ANYTHING into /sw which is not installed by dpkg/apt-get violates the spirit of fink. Please don't. > > > > Mat Caughron > -- Dave _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
