On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:15:16PM -0600, Bart Whiteley wrote:
> >Why are you opposed to letting the package do this in
> >post-install?
>
> 1) don't want a 15 line path (should *every* program get to add its own
> path?)
> 2) don't trust the program to munge the path properly (there's a lot of
> ways I can set my path, and I'll bet you can't predict all of them :)
I have had an idea for a while for a new command, lsbinstall, that would be
a way to add several things to the system. Lsbinstall would be capable of
adding/remove several different type of infomation from the system config.
A partial list of things that I think could be handled in a similar manner
are:
init scripts
PATH elements
fonts/font directories
desktop menu entries
etc.
I have come across other things which fit this model, but I can't recall them
right now.
Stuart
[email protected] Free Standards Group
Lead Developer, Written Specification Linux Standard Base
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