On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:04:26PM +0200, Hiren Patel wrote: > why would you want to do this? this is not something i would do using > rpm, i would prefer that the application being installed complained > about needing certain environment variables set, and let users add such > variables to rc scripts of the shells they run in their home > directories. it would be difficult to cater for all shells and may even > be an annoyance for some users. The users who might be annoyed by it probably know enough to deal with that case. But with your suggestion, what about a user who doesn't know what an environment variable or a shell is, let alone an rc script? -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
