From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:32:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108201132.03964.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93851835.dTpknMGddF@nazgul>
On Saturday 20 August 2011 09:07:17 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Add a variable at the top to define the bin directory to use. Then
> users can change it to whatever suits them.
>
> /tmp is a good default, except when it's mounted noexec.
> Same for ~
>
> Almost every reasonable choice will have times when it's not good, so
> rather shift the responsibility over to the end user :-)
Or, as Pandu said, clean up afterwards.
Not knocking your work, Walter - I like the script and I'm grateful.
--
Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-20 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-19 12:02 [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome Space Cake
2011-08-19 12:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-19 14:07 ` Space Cake
2011-08-19 14:27 ` jdm
2011-08-19 14:41 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-19 14:39 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-19 16:03 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-22 9:47 ` Space Cake
2011-08-22 10:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-08-22 11:30 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-22 17:08 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-19 14:50 ` [gentoo-user] " András Csányi
2011-08-19 15:19 ` Space Cake
2011-08-19 23:14 ` Walter Dnes
2011-08-20 0:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-20 4:02 ` Walter Dnes
2011-08-20 8:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-20 10:32 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-08-20 1:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-08-20 4:10 ` Walter Dnes
2011-08-19 19:54 ` Daniel da Veiga
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