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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 ) Great idea -- but I believe a consenses has already been reached: put the binaries in /usr/bin. I don't really care; I'll fix things up the way I like 'em on my system... Also, Jan and I have been talking with Bryan Henderson(?) who maintains netpbm. He has said that version 10 will be coming out in about a month with some big changes, and Jan is inclined to wait until then to create the cygwin package...just so you know. --Chuck
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