Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 15 July 2005 09:56 pm, Michael Marineau wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 15 July 2005 09:25 pm, Michael Marineau wrote:
> >>Does the risk of abuse outweigh the potential usefulness that much?  My
> >>vote would be to do more of this sort of thing.  Reducing the
> >>oppertunity for users to shoot themselves in the foot would be good.
> >
> > err i dont see what this topic has to do with baselayout's problems
> > with /etc/profile.d functionality
> >
> > 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
>
> I just ment that by providing profile.d (and similar things) would let
> users customize
> their profile without having to edit a gentoo installed file, making
> upgrades a bit
> easier.

ah, so *i* misunderstood *your* reply ;)
-mike
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