On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 19:02 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote:
> > Thanks... I saw that "bug" and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and
> > nothing was done. Did you know why?
> 
> hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before, but i guess we've never 
> posted to the bug
> 
> the only thing we really have against it is the potential of developer 
> abuse ... that is, we feel that ebuild authors should *never* install a file 
> there, it should only ever contain files created by the user

I the the resolution was pretty much that it is not that much of a
schlep to maintain those lines of code in /etc/profile if the user/admin
really wants it.


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Martin Schlemmer