[38109] trunk/base

[Randall Wood]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 7, 2008, at 03:32, Randall Wood wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Jul 6, 2008, at 19:39, Rainer Müller wrote:
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>>>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Now does this work for tcsh too or just for bash?
>>>>
>>>> This is for bash only. I assume the majority of users have bash as
>>>> default shell.
>>>
>>> Probably, but users who upgraded from Mac OS X 10.1.x or earlier
>>> could still have tcsh as their default shell, and we should support
>>> that.
>>>
>>>> I don't think we can write a script which will work with all shells
>>>> out
>>>> there, so additional versions for tcsh/zsh/ksh/... are welcomed.
>>>>
>>>> I renamed the file to setupenv.bash in r38114 to reflect this.
>>
>> Is there any mechanism for ports to manipulate the environment?
>
>
> Do you mean to change the user's shell for them? It should be possible with
> NetInfo. But I don't think MacPorts should be the one to tell the user what
> shell to use.
>
> Or did you mean something else?
>
>
I meant something like what fink does. See
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode task 10


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