ITP: netpbm

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Mon Apr 29 04:46:00 GMT 2002


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:04:55PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > But everyone will complain if they can't run the package after they install
> > it.  I think we should absolutely avoid the latter case.  The former
> > we can deal with as required.
> 
> What's the problem in adding two files to the package:
> 
> /etc/profile.d/netpbm.sh:
> 
>   PATH=$PATH:/usr/netpbm/bin export $PATH
> 
> /etc/profile.d/netpbm.csh:
> 
>   set path = ( $path /usr/netpbm/bin )
> 

Because I would `mv /usr/netpbm/bin/* /usr/bin/ && rm -rf /usr/netpbm &&
rm -f /etc/profile.d/netpbm*'.  The point is, the extra path walks are
expensive.

Earnie.



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