Re: all xterms
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:50:18PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:53:22PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > But I am talking about some global setting. If every account's $PATH
> > starts by non-existing dir this slows down a system signigicantly.
> > And it have to START by this cause elseway /usr/bin/ would be used.
>
> (1) Have you measured it? What results did you get?
No, I havent.
> (2) You've still not identified a program which hardcodes xterm's path
> (3) The one example you gave -- mutt -- is bogus:
> (a) it doesn't call xterm (which you already pointed out), and
> (b) it's trivial to use relative paths (or arbitrary executables),
> just edit /etc/Muttrc
I just wanted to give an example of program using hardcoded paths and
a maintainer who thinks this is ok.
I dont know about any program using hardcoded xterm's path,
but there are possibly a few and this will cause
difficult-to-find results.
> At the moment I'm having a hard time believing you're trying to solve
> a real problem.
With 1)mutt or 2)sensible-xterm ?
1) it should run `pgp'
2) we need a way to have user-basis xterm chosing
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