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On Friday 15 July 2005 09:56 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Friday 15 July 2005 09:25 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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> I just ment that by providing profile.d (and similar things) would let |
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> users customize |
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> their profile without having to edit a gentoo installed file, making |
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> upgrades a bit |
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> easier. |
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ah, so *i* misunderstood *your* reply ;) |
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-mike |
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