Re: It's Huntin' Season
>>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
Thomas> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> When I load an emacs start up file, typically the behacviour
>> of emacs changes. For example, auc tex, cperl, psgml, et. al. replace
>> the default handling of certain files with wildly different
>> behaviour.
Thomas> When I put a new binary in /bin, the behavior of bash changes. Does
Thomas> that mean that every binary in the system is a configuration file?
Hmm. This is getting confrontational, but.
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.
Again, I assert: You should *NOT* repeat, *NOLT* be putting
programs stuff in site-start.d files. Invoking these program files,
(which a user cna shut off), is all that should be done.
I thought this was self evident (I mean, /etc is kinda linked
to configuration files, so I knew I should not be putting non
configuration stuff in /etc, but I guess policy should not assume the
commonality of what is dubbed common sense).
manoj
--
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use
your thumbs. Tom Lehrer
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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