Erik Troan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, Nicholas Petreley wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Ugh. We should just standardize /etc/profile.d or the like.
>
Great. Then you're breaking anyone who isn't using bash or ksh. I bet
10:1 that this is going to be used for setting environment variables,
which are *MUCH* better set in a wrapper script.
Should we standardize /etc/csh.complete as well? If anything there
would be a stronger case made for that.
I suggest that unless someone could produce *very* strong evidence that
this is a desirable feature, I don't think we should touch this one,
especially not for LSB 1.0. We have enough to do, and we need to get it
done.
-hpa
