Re: It's Huntin' Season
>>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
Thomas> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> Hmm. This is getting confrontational, but.
Thomas> I'm not trying to be confrontational. It might seem like the
Thomas> executable is a stupid example, but it's actually important. So bear
Thomas> with me.
>> If your binary is run every time I log in, then hell, yes, the
>> part that invokes the binary is a config file.
>>
>> That is exactly what happens when you put things in
>> site-start.d files.
Thomas> Sure. But some site-start.d files only set up autoloads and
Thomas> things
Why should these not bve considered customizable? Suppose I
have my own implementation of functions from a particular file in a
package, and I want to over ride the autoloads for the functions from
just that one file?
Thomas> like that, so that the programs can be executed by users,
Thomas> later, under user control. It's those site-start.d files
Thomas> that I'm talking about.
And I say that those site start files ought to be under my
control too.
manoj
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