Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/04/29/10:58:00
At 07:44 AM 4/29/2002, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:04:55PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > > But everyone will complain if they can't run the package after they install
> > > it. I think we should absolutely avoid the latter case. The former
> > > we can deal with as required.
> >
> > What's the problem in adding two files to the package:
> >
> > /etc/profile.d/netpbm.sh:
> >
> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/netpbm/bin export $PATH
> >
> > /etc/profile.d/netpbm.csh:
> >
> > set path = ( $path /usr/netpbm/bin )
> >
>
>Because I would `mv /usr/netpbm/bin/* /usr/bin/ && rm -rf /usr/netpbm &&
>rm -f /etc/profile.d/netpbm*'. The point is, the extra path walks are
>expensive.
Quite true. But I would say that Corinna's suggestion, from a strict
technical perspective, makes netpbm in a different bin directory usable
'out-of-the-box' under Cygwin. If netpbm were going to be put in it's
own bin directory, I would say that adding files like the ones Corinna
suggests is an absolute requirement.
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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