That makes sense to me.  Actually it makes much more sense than what I 
suggested. ;-)

-Nick

* Erik Troan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000502 14:09]:
> 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.
> 
> Erik
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