From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: ebo@sandien.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:26:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77EE62CA-02C0-46FA-9BA1-CF99053DDFA0@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <twig.1271314095.55725@swcp.com>
On 15 Apr 2010, at 07:48, EBo wrote:
> what I had meant is simply that when a user tries to run a program
> which has
> been installed system wide it should simply work.
A good goal, but I'm not sure an environment variable is a good way to
achieve it. At the very least it means, in a typical Linux
distribution, an additional file in each of /etc/profile.d, /etc/
zprofile.d, /etc/cshlogin.d (or whatever they call it) and etc. for
each shell the user might possibly want.
Then there's the matter of users who commit the heinous crime of
preferring a display manager over startx, which raises questions over
when where or even _if_ system-wide environment variables will be set
at all. Display managers are still the truculent beasts they were 10
years ago.
Then too there's the possibility that some poor [l]user will get the
notion that the environment variable is the right way to set the
parameter, and get in a muddle when half his open xterms (that he's
had open for the past month) still have the old setting. Better to let
him write a script, at least he can stick it in ~/bin. (Yes, it
happened to me, more than once, and rather converted me to wrapper
scripts.)
If some distro wants to stick a default 9vx tree in some _really_
weird place, let them patch the source!
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-15 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-01 10:13 [9fans] how about intel D510MO Alex
2010-04-08 3:53 ` John Barham
2010-04-08 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 17:06 ` [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9 EBo
2010-04-11 17:11 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 17:24 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-11 17:30 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 17:48 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-11 17:52 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 21:01 ` [9fans] /sys/lib/newuser patch EBo
2010-04-11 21:48 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 22:04 ` EBo
2010-04-11 23:06 ` Iruata Souza
2010-04-12 3:58 ` EBo
2010-04-11 23:19 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-04-12 3:49 ` EBo
2010-04-12 5:34 ` EBo
2010-04-12 12:28 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-12 13:13 ` EBo
2010-04-12 13:28 ` hiro
2010-04-12 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-12 14:11 ` hiro
2010-04-12 14:35 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-12 14:40 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-12 15:01 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-12 15:28 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-12 15:08 ` hiro
2010-04-12 15:23 ` hiro
2010-04-13 2:23 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-04-13 2:53 ` EBo
2010-04-13 3:14 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-04-13 3:23 ` EBo
2010-04-13 4:05 ` EBo
2010-04-12 13:38 ` EBo
2010-04-13 13:37 ` maht
2010-04-13 13:59 ` EBo
2010-04-11 18:03 ` [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9 EBo
2010-04-11 17:32 ` EBo
2010-04-11 17:42 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-11 17:47 ` EBo
2010-04-12 0:43 ` Russ Cox
2010-04-12 3:22 ` EBo
2010-04-12 10:46 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-04-12 11:38 ` EBo
2010-04-12 12:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-13 4:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-04-13 5:20 ` EBo
2010-04-13 5:43 ` Skip Tavakkolian
[not found] ` <43c85712dd833ad7544f72b7c66a3b2e@9netics.com>
2010-04-13 6:19 ` EBo
2010-04-13 6:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-04-13 6:47 ` EBo
2010-04-14 16:22 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-14 18:10 ` EBo
2010-04-14 18:23 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-04-14 18:33 ` lucio
2010-04-14 18:38 ` EBo
2010-04-14 22:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-15 0:30 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-15 4:32 ` Russ Cox
2010-04-15 6:48 ` EBo
2010-04-15 8:26 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2010-04-15 7:39 ` EBo
2010-04-15 9:22 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-15 13:55 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-15 14:01 ` EBo
2010-04-14 18:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-14 18:50 ` EBo
2010-04-14 18:44 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-04-14 19:01 ` EBo
2010-04-15 8:44 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2010-04-15 10:11 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-15 13:06 ` EBo
2010-04-15 14:29 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2010-04-15 15:38 ` hiro
2010-04-16 7:52 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-16 12:08 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-16 8:20 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-16 10:57 ` hiro
2010-04-26 8:43 ` [9fans] how about intel D510MO Pavel Klinkovsky
2010-04-15 16:52 [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9 Chad Brown
2010-04-15 17:03 ` erik quanstrom
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