On Friday 15 July 2005 09:25 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: > >>Thanks... I saw that "bug" and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and > >>nothing was done. Did you know why? > > > > hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before, but i guess we've never > > posted to the bug > > > > the only thing we really have against it is the potential of developer > > abuse ... that is, we feel that ebuild authors should *never* install a > > file there, it should only ever contain files created by the user > > Does the risk of abuse outweigh the potential usefulness that much? My > vote would be to do more of this sort of thing. Reducing the > oppertunity for users to shoot themselves in the foot would be good.
err i dont see what this topic has to do with baselayout's problems with /etc/profile.d functionality we could care less what users do with /etc/profile.d ... the point is that *only* users should use /etc/profile.d ... we dont want random Gentoo developer Foo installing some Bar.sh into /etc/profile.d with package app-crap/FooBar -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
