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From: Herbert Fischer <herbert.fischer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:16:30
Message-Id: 9f90e8bf050716181320b06312@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/ by Mike Frysinger
1 All scripts created by Gentoo emerges have some header signature (sort
2 of cvs information), am I right?
3
4 If so, some sort of checking script can detect Gentoo signed files on
5 /etc/profile.d and just ignore them when scanning profile.d for user
6 scripts.
7
8 On 7/16/05, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
9 > On Friday 15 July 2005 11:16 pm, Aaron Walker wrote:
10 > > Mike Frysinger wrote:
11 > > > the only thing we really have against it is the potential of developer
12 > > > abuse ... that is, we feel that ebuild authors should *never* install a
13 > > > file there, it should only ever contain files created by the user
14 > > > -mike
15 > >
16 > > Hmm... what about bash-completion? bash-completion has installed
17 > > /etc/profile.d/bash-completion long before I took over maintaining it.
18 >
19 > well it doesnt matter since nothing actually uses profile.d :P
20 >
21 > but if we were to add profile.d support to baselayout, i would force you to
22 > remove this from bash-completion before hand
23 > -mike
24 > --
25 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
26 >
27 >
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/ Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: /etc/profile.d/ Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>