From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dtc2l-0005P5-Ne for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:04:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6G23i7h000885; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:03:44 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6G2254u007766 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:02:05 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dtc0Y-0007eY-UE for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:02:27 +0000 Received: (qmail 4692 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2005 22:02:04 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 15 Jul 2005 22:02:04 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:03:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <9f90e8bf05071514597043b7bb@mail.gmail.com> <200507152134.09075.vapier@gentoo.org> <42D86930.20308@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42D86930.20308@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507152203.45743.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 115302d9-88da-46a5-b0db-d54a305d9a93 X-Archives-Hash: 804bbebca5d53ed728ec22112f3d9b08 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list