On Saturday 16 July 2005 04:58 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 19:03 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:34:09 -0400
> >
> > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > we could care less what users do with /etc/profile.d ... the point is
> > > that *only* users should use /etc/profile.d ... we dont want random
> > > Gentoo developer Foo installing some Bar.sh into /etc/profile.d with
> > > package app-crap/FooBar
> >
> > Would the following in /et/profile be a solution to this problem?
> >
> > for x in $( < /etc/profile.d/.default); do
> > source "/etc/profile.d/${x}"
> > done
> >
> > That way devs could install stuff there, but it would only be run if
> > users added it to the .default file.
>
> If we do something like this, I'll rather not source it, but run it via
> the current shell. This should discourage devs to install stuff
> touching the environment there rather than /etc/env.d/.
that kind of limits the usefulness of profile.d then ... and again, not too
intuitive when it comes to the behaviors users would expect
-mike
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