problems with XFree

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Tue Jul 23 13:07:00 GMT 2002


Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Why not install a file in /etc/profile.d ?
> 

Sylvain,

I am not sure why we didn't use /etc/profile.d.  I remember discussing 
it, but when I searched the mailing list archives using the search 
function at the top of the archive page, all I got was a bunch of spam 
messages that I don't recall ever seeing on the mailing list (at least 
not on the dates mentioned).  I will have to do a google search for 
profile.d on our site, but I haven't got time now.  If you could do the 
search and summarize where the thread left off, that would be great.

I seem to remember that a profile.d would work for some cases, but it 
wouldn't work for all cases... but I cannot give a specific example 
(might be the archives as well).

Harold

> 
>>Yes, the problem is because /usr/X11R6/bin is not in the path by
>>default.
>>
>>Yes, we have thought many, many times about how to fix this.
>>
>>No, no one has yet come up with a solution that will work for all
>>cases.
>>
>>Yes, we are very much looking forward to your patch that fixes this
>>problem.
>>
> 
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