On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Ryan Davis wrote:
> [...snip...]
>
> I've seen weird cases lately where the solution to some poor fool's
> port building problem is "Take '.' out of your path". That's just
> NOT going to help us increase the usability of our favorite OS, is
> it?
Having "." in your PATH
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 06:48 , Randy Bush wrote:
>> I think giving mergemaster(8) a PATH that includes all of the tools it
>> needs to run is not a lot to ask.
>
> it would more normal to this over-attenuated hacker to give commands
> explicit paths
Or at least have mergemaster extend PA
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 03:48:45PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I think giving mergemaster(8) a PATH that includes all of the tools it
> > needs to run is not a lot to ask.
>
> it would more normal to this over-attenuated hacker to give commands
> explicit paths
Again, I think this is a bad idea
I agree vigorously with Randy's point. If people want to play games,
they can edit mergemaster or, as with everything else, we should have it
dot an optional /etc/mergemaster.conf file after setting its defaults.
Would /usr/bin/make buildworld do funny things if PATH were odd?
On Sun, Mar 24, 2
> I think giving mergemaster(8) a PATH that includes all of the tools it
> needs to run is not a lot to ask.
it would more normal to this over-attenuated hacker to give commands
explicit paths
randy
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 03:25:30PM -0800, Ryan Davis wrote:
>
> On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 10:45 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> >>> mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /var/tmp/temproot/
> >>> mtree:No such file or directory
> >> Looks like /usr/sbin isn't in your PATH.
> >
> > somet
