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 1DtbT7-0006Ua-4J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:27:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6G1QsHK012608; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:26:54 GMT Received: from ns1.osuosl.org (ns1.osuosl.org [140.211.166.130]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6G1PG5A022041 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:25:17 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3CFABD5E1 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ns1.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20676-22 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [140.211.167.2] (leo.osuosl.org [140.211.167.2]) by ns1.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F31BD559 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42D86212.6060407@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:25:38 -0700 From: Michael Marineau Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050525) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/ References: <9f90e8bf05071514597043b7bb@mail.gmail.com> <200507151841.05326.vapier@gentoo.org> <9f90e8bf0507151556fe00ac7@mail.gmail.com> <200507151902.38224.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200507151902.38224.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE499FD06E4BB76B6BA04A29B" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at osuosl.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=-999.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: b253cf7a-3ca5-4b7a-9329-ec509890f764 X-Archives-Hash: e1becd17526df329f4a82c7832e06955 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE499FD06E4BB76B6BA04A29B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > -mike 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. speeking of shooting feet, it's be a pretty interesting statistic to see how many times people have borked their system by accidently replacing their fstab :-P -- Michael Marineau marineam@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux Developer Oregon State University --------------enigE499FD06E4BB76B6BA04A29B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC2GISiP+LossGzjARAhqlAJ9k7BnZdCXtquhWWr9eT9ZxJKuZAQCeJ6wk dHIi8WIZV6FrWeOPeWZZQLQ= =Sbom -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE499FD06E4BB76B6BA04A29B-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list