On Saturday 16 July 2005 01:03 pm, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:34:09 -0400
>
> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Would the following in /et/profile be a solution to this problem?
>
> for x in $( < /etc/profile.d/.default); do
>       source "/etc/profile.d/${x}"
> done
>
> That way devs could install stuff there, but it would only be run if
> users added it to the .default file.

that kind of limits the intuitiveness of profile.d ... plus, not like they 
couldnt just do 'echo blah >> /etc/profile.d/.default' at the end of 
pkg_postinst or something
-mike
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