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Re: Package organization issue...



On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:

>>  Having a directory /etc/defaults where packages can put
>> scripts to set environment variables... and /etc/profile
>> would call run-parts on this directory (Of course it would
>> need to be something like eval `run-parts ...`, and the
>> scripts would print the commands).
> I think that's not a bad idea.  There are a few packages that could
> set up environment variables that way too; like CVS, for instance.

 Less would be able to set a `LESSPIPE'... fileutils would be able to set
aliases and ls colors...

 And, as these files would be conffiles, local changes will be
preserved... 

-- 
Nicolás Lichtmaier.-
nick@feedback.com.ar


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