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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:07:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93851835.dTpknMGddF@nazgul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110820040215.GA5274@waltdnes.org>

On Sat 20 August 2011 00:02:15 Walter Dnes did opine thusly:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:33AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
> 
> > Interesting - thanks! It found an unused library file (qdbm)
> > here that nothing else had.
> > 
> > One suggestion: I'd create cleanscript in /tmp rather than
> > wherever I happened to be at the time.
> 
>   Question... how many people have /tmp on a partition that's
> mounted "noexec"?  That could be a problem.

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 :-)


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-20  8:08 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 [this message]
2011-08-20 10:32             ` Peter Humphrey
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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