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Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)
Because these scripts are accessible for everyone and may change global
configuration settings, these scripts are for for cygwin administrator only.
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 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)
> 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.