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Re: ITP: netpbm

From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:44:12 -0400
Subject: Re: ITP: netpbm
References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5F31@itdomain003.itdomai <4.3.1.2.20020427180026.02cbc078@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20020429115530.B11549@cygbert.vinschen.de>
Reply-to: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Apps at Cygwin dot Com>

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.

Earnie.

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