From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTqvH-0005vu-VU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:32:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89EB1E01CF; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f188.google.com (mail-pz0-f188.google.com [209.85.222.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE85E01CF; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk26 with SMTP id 26so430070pzk.32 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:32:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NXGQ67DuriEvipEuhaHHIUoUjbg3BE0+jRojzku7tOY=; b=mtsAaW90AFZgP2XzzTANkGYGourGr2Xdr5FeDHnxQp5QUxonkGX10QV8i602kafViH a/9eEyRAfrJCSqhoCZhSYdSmpwIQcYYK5BjtMR4Xsf7TPbw4y6Sh9RJuQS/ZlxyJPpHy N6ufjGNgMn4otYXCS4xPGabigxy5Cv2TT8AyM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=t7Pp3JLzC6VwfTUUONlFE8M/EW7CsK7rkd1VF/PgWijDHcI13U2zwZLK0xPvKybjTC FwzC4q1CURyzbJn2i38uLT/XxLmjGex0JfB16KgxtsMZQBRAdOTgMwnhrESuzXiqIGoW aJnNiBRVIB/B2fLFukthZtr/lp5U9hzBaH0p8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.88.12 with SMTP id l12mr1780646wab.19.1248327173746; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:32:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1248324203.7494.52.camel@thedude> References: <1245163715.14589.515.camel@thedude> <1248288117.7494.34.camel@thedude> <8b4c83ad0907222009sba2c36fu59d2caf68ebcfd95@mail.gmail.com> <1248324203.7494.52.camel@thedude> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:02:53 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 90f35d715bf2b726 Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0907222232o6499fcbcjce1d8a063d93d5c1@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool From: Nirbheek Chauhan To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c8b8263d-9381-4729-ae4c-a1114888c81c X-Archives-Hash: e36e9ef1fbf2dd7321c17e19f9379b7b 2009/7/23 S=C3=A9rgio Almeida : > A child process cannot (or shouldn't be able to) change parent's process > environment. > > uprofile will need to change env var's on-the-fly. For instance tag $PS1 > with the current profile in use > I don't understand what use this feature has. Won't the "current profile" be persistent across shells? If so, won't PS1 not be persistent if you change in on-the-fly? If you don't intend to keep it persistent, what's the use? (Actually, I don't see the use of having it at all) --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan