Hi Stef, A couple of points:
On 16 Sep 2010, at 16:26, Stef Bidi wrote: > I agree with this statement. It's a fact that GNUstep doesn't play well with > the FHS used by, pretty much, every single *nix variant. FHS is a Linux 'standard', not a *NIX standard. Most *NIX variants use something vaguely similar, but none use FHS. For example, on *BSD, GNUstep's decision to put GNUstep.conf in /etc/GNUstep/ is incorrect - this location should only be used for stuff that is in the base system. Third-party configuration stuff should go in /usr/local/etc. > Sure, we've discussed that kind of thing before and there was a strong > argument that editing such files is intrusive, and system dependent since the > appropriate files vary, and generally somewhat complex (you need to remove > old edits before making a new one) and error-prone. I'm sure we could do it, > but using native conventions seems simpler so far. More to the point, we should encourage packagers to make the modification in the way that their OS recommends. > That solution is just wrong. There's no reason why system files should be > touched when installing a piece of software. Bash uses the /etc/profile.d/ > directory and if you're going to do something like what is being proposed, a > file should be added to that dir instead of appending /etc/profile directly. > In any case, this is, again, is just a work around to the actual problem. No it doesn't. bash uses /etc/profile. A lot of Linux distributions set this up to source profile.d/*, but that's all implemented in /etc/profile by the distribution, it's not a bash feature. David _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
