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On Friday 15 July 2005 09:25 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: |
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> >>Thanks... I saw that "bug" and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and |
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> >>nothing was done. Did you know why? |
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> > hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before, but i guess we've never |
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> > posted to the bug |
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> > |
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> > the only thing we really have against it is the potential of developer |
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> > abuse ... that is, we feel that ebuild authors should *never* install a |
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> > file there, it should only ever contain files created by the user |
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> |
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> Does the risk of abuse outweigh the potential usefulness that much? My |
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> vote would be to do more of this sort of thing. Reducing the |
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> oppertunity for users to shoot themselves in the foot would be good. |
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err i dont see what this topic has to do with baselayout's problems |
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with /etc/profile.d functionality |
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we could care less what users do with /etc/profile.d ... the point is that |
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*only* users should use /etc/profile.d ... we dont want random Gentoo |
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developer Foo installing some Bar.sh into /etc/profile.d with package |
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app-crap/FooBar |
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-mike |
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