On Friday 15 July 2005 09:56 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 15 July 2005 09:25 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: > >>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 > > I just ment that by providing profile.d (and similar things) would let > users customize > their profile without having to edit a gentoo installed file, making > upgrades a bit > easier.
ah, so *i* misunderstood *your* reply ;) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
