Re: Questions on RPM

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

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?

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