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


I don't feel myself safe with these potentialy dangerous files in the
PATH... My proposal is to move these files somewhere else.

Sergey Okhapkin
Somerset, NJ

----- 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.
>



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