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On Saturday 16 July 2005 04:58 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 19:03 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:34:09 -0400 |
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> > |
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> > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > we could care less what users do with /etc/profile.d ... the point is |
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> > > that *only* users should use /etc/profile.d ... we dont want random |
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> > > Gentoo developer Foo installing some Bar.sh into /etc/profile.d with |
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> > > package app-crap/FooBar |
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> > |
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> > Would the following in /et/profile be a solution to this problem? |
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> > |
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> > for x in $( < /etc/profile.d/.default); do |
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> > source "/etc/profile.d/${x}" |
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> > done |
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> > |
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> > That way devs could install stuff there, but it would only be run if |
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> > users added it to the .default file. |
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> If we do something like this, I'll rather not source it, but run it via |
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> the current shell. This should discourage devs to install stuff |
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> touching the environment there rather than /etc/env.d/. |
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that kind of limits the usefulness of profile.d then ... and again, not too |
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intuitive when it comes to the behaviors users would expect |
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-mike |
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