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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