init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)

[Max Bowsher]

Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:

> I don't feel myself safe with these potentialy dangerous files in the
> PATH... 

Why are they dangerous?

> My proposal is to move these files somewhere else.

Well, thats a discussion which will probably require Chris's arbitration.

-- 
Max.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>
> To: "Sergey Okhapkin" <sos@prospect.com.ru>; <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 8:06 AM
> Subject: Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload.
> (fwd) 
> 
> 
>> Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't want to introduce extra files in /bin or /usr/bin.
>>> XXX-config scripts should be located somewhere else, not in a path,
>>> something like /etc/package-config, the directory should be
>>> designated for config scripts only.
>> 
>> $ ls /usr/bin/*-config
>> /usr/bin/iu-config
>> /usr/bin/libpng-config
>> /usr/bin/libpng12-config
>> /usr/bin/pcre-config
>> /usr/bin/ssh-host-config
>> /usr/bin/ssh-user-config
>> 
>> The convention seems a little bit entrenched by now.
>> 
>> Max.