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
next prev parent 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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