> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:12:57PM -0700, stan wrote:
> Well, architecture in the abstract is one thing — it's gotta hit the
> real world for feedback at some point.

The bug we're discussing now - not reading ~/.profile - has been known for 2 
years. Nobody had to wait for "real world feedback" to learn about it.

Since I'm a free software developer myself, and know about the whole "scratch 
my own itch" philosophy, I'm led to conclude that *nobody* from the entire 
Gnome team, nor from the entire Fedora team involved in testing Wayland, is 
actually using ~/.profile. Otherwise this bug would have given them a 
tremendous itch. For me, realizing that was both surprising and depressing. Are 
none of you using a shell? Are none of you doing things in ~/.profile (or your 
shell's equivalent)? Am I the only person left in the world who wants to set 
his own PATH, his own CDPATH, his own GZIP and LESS options, HISTSIZE, PAGER,  
and more and more? Or, perhaps anyone just caved in an moved all their 
environment variable settings to ~/.bashrc (which continues to work), despite 
decades of Unix books warning against that for anachronistic performance 
reasons?

Nadav.
_______________________________________________
users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Reply via email to