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, a
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 installi
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
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 m
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 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:
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-poli
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
f
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
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/pr
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 w
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 plac
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