On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:37, Santiago Vila wrote:
Please read the archives of debian-policy.
My own archive of policy only goes back to oktober 2004 and doesn't yield
any matches, doing a websearch on debian-policy yields only the following
threads:
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
What Side affects?
The file /etc/profile is similar to .profile, except that it is global.
As a user, I would become very upset if installing a package would
alter my $HOME/.profile. Whatever I do in my startup scripts
is not a business of
On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:25, you wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
What Side affects?
As a user, I would become very upset if installing a package would
alter my $HOME/.profile. Whatever I do in my startup scripts
is not a business of any package, it's my
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:25, you wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
What Side affects?
As a user, I would become very upset if installing a package would
alter my $HOME/.profile. Whatever I do in my
On Thursday 05 January 2006 13:14, you wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:25, you wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
What Side affects?
As a user, I would become very upset if installing a package
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
I've reasoned that:
1) policy allows a profile.d
Policy allows a lot of things, but that does not mean that every thing
which policy allows should be implemented. Point 1 invalid.
2) policy prohibits misuse of it
It *will* be abused, and
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 15:18, you wrote:
please use the wontfix tag instead of closing, this seems to be a
textbook case of what the tag is for (and would avoid the whole 'again'
frustration').
Sorry, but I have never been a big fan of the wontfix tag. Either a bug
is a bug and
Please read the archives of debian-policy. This issue has been discussed
several times there.
There will always be people for which your feature request is a good
thing, but IMHO the side effects of it will not compensate the
benefits, so I definitely need something more than it would be useful
Package: base-files
Version: 3.1.9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Adding the snippet below to /etc/profile modularizes /etc/profile so
packages can drop snippets they want to add into an /etc/profile.d dir and
have them picket up.
Several other packages in Debian have similar mechanisms in
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 13:09, you wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
Package: base-files
Version: 3.1.9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Adding the snippet below to /etc/profile modularizes /etc/profile so
packages can drop snippets they want to add
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 13:09, you wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
Package: base-files
Version: 3.1.9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Adding the snippet below to /etc/profile modularizes
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