Bug#122817: base-files: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian policy, I do not like /etc/profile.d idea because I am a zsh user and every implementation I saw so far were completly broken if your shell was not bash. -- Either /etc/profile.d applied only to bash, but why discriminating users of other shell (zsh,tcsh,etc...) ? -- Either

Re: Bug#122817: base-files: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2001-12-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:37:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:04:39PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: You are wrong here. Sample: - I want to provide a package with a lot of useful bash functions/aliases w/o changing any program

Re: Bug#122817: base-files: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2001-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:11:06AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:37:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:04:39PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: You are wrong here. Sample: - I want to provide a

Re: Bug#122817: base-files: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2001-12-07 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 122817 debian-policy severity 122817 wishlist thanks On 7 Dec 2001, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena wrote: Package: base-files Version: 3.0 Severity: important Tag: patch First of all, I'm setting this bug as important due to the fact that, even if it works as is some packages

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2001-12-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 122817 debian-policy Bug#122817: base-files: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile Bug reassigned from package `base-files' to `debian-policy'. severity 122817 wishlist Bug#122817: base-files: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc

Re: Bug#122817: base-files: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2001-12-07 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 02:20:19PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: The profile.d thing has been suggested several times (see the archived bugs for the base-files package) and I have always rejected it because it is against the spirit of policy when it says: (..) If we followed this, no

Re: Bug#122817: base-files: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2001-12-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:04:39PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: You are wrong here. Sample: - I want to provide a package with a lot of useful bash functions/aliases w/o changing any program Write scripts and put them in /usr/local/bin. - I want my users to have a