On 12/2/05, Nathan Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Felix, > > I may have missed it with all of the other discussion in this thread, but > could you explain the base issue you're trying to address?
Yah, really, Raster, MeJ, I think it would be more appropriate to take your license discussions to another thread. i'm sure Felix and Nathan et al would appreciate it. The Subject is "specifying user environment in Entrance" after all, not "IANAL, but let's argue license interpretations anyway" d# > There isn't much > that we would want from the root environment passed to the users session, so > I think clearing the environment is mandatory. Why and when do you need the > environment variables setup, and is there a reason executing a login shell, > like entrance does to start a session, doesn't satisfy the requirements? > > Nathan > > > On 12/1/05, Felix Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 03:54:15 +0000 > > Felix Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Now, if you think Entrance should always clear the environment, that's > > > ok. My next option would then be to have Entrance read the variables it > > > is supposed to set from /etc/environment. If I am not mistaken, simply > > > executing /etc/environment in entrance would not set the variables. I > > > would have to parse the file (using regular expressions) and set the > > > individual variables explicitly. Would that approach be ok for you? > > > > I forgot to mention the format of the file. It contains lines of the > > form: > > > > export VAR=VALUE > > > > which is fairly standard. If you think this is too particular to my > > case, what format would you suggest for specifying the environment? > > > > Forgive my ignorance, but how do KDM/GDM handle the environment? > > > > Felix > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
