Re: zsh as root login

[mason@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing)]

Stefan Monnier <monnier+lists/zsh/workers/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> typed:
:Bruce Stephens <B.Stephens@isode.com> writes:
:PPS: furthermore, if you install zsh in /bin, then why do you also want it in
:    /usr/local ? Just "configure --prefix=/ --mandir=/usr/man" and then add
:    a "ln -s /bin/zsh /usr/local/bin/" for those scripts using the
:    "canonic path" (it's always a bad idea to have two copies of the same
:    program since it tends to waste memory by having multiple copies of the
:    same program in core).

That's true and it's important.  If you're using static and dynamic linked
zshs you won't be sharing the text segments between them, so you're better
off only having static linked zsh or dynamic linked zsh, rather than both.
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