On Do, 10 Okt 2013, Brian Murray wrote:
>   The package install-info sources /etc/environment and will fail to
>   install if there are any configuration errors in that file.  This
>   seems to happen a fair bit.

Yes, and if we ad
        rm -rf /
into /etc/profile then we can also get bugs ...

I don't care for bugs that are misconfiguration of users. We cannot
protect users from shooting themselves ...

Norbert

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