Nicholas Petreley wrote:
>
> > All of these issues are, IMO, out of scope, which is to standardize
> > existing Linux practice.
>
> IMO an installation program for an app should be able to change the .profile
> or equivalent in a user's home dir if it needs to (at least with the
> permission of the user). That means that it needs to find a .profile vs. a
> .login, or whatever. Or perhaps this means the app should query to find out
> which shell the user has enabled by default, and find the correct file that
> way? In which case we should specify the correct way to do that perhaps?
>
No way! There is absolutely no justification for this kind of
behaviour, especially since it is bound to screw up multi-user systems,
tcsh users, you name it.
-hpa
