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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: [Bug 53345] .bash_profile  script is not sourced]
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-29 21:59:26
Message-ID: 20040229215926.GB12675 () ugly ! local
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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:22:29PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > the problem is that you simply don't realize that you severely
> > misbehaved. under these circumstances i'm not a bit sorry for
> > calling you names.
> >
> I believe that you assumed that I would "misbehave" at some time in
> the future.  Specifically, you assumed that I would try to have
> something submitted without first submitting it to you or posting it
> on BugZilla.  I don't do such things; I don't work that way.  If you
> wanted to make sure that I would first get your approval before
> committing something, you should have said that, rather than simply
> calling me names.
> 
you still don't get it ...  the report status in bugzilla is a
version-controlled entity just like some piece of code in cvs. playing
ping-pong with the maintainer of the relevant product is simply
inacceptable behaviour.

> > you want Xsession to pretend to be the user's $SHELL, so he doesn't
> > need to set up the session separately.
> 
> Not exactly.  I just think that it would be a good idea to use the
> systems default shell (if possible and especially if not using it
> causes a problem).  The biggest issue is that Linux systems use Bash
> and not using Bash causes a problem.
>
that's nonsense. that is no such thing as a system default shell, at
least formally. anything assuming that /bin/sh is any particular shell
except a posix shell is simply buggy. ergo there is no point in
emulating the "system shell".

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