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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:12:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tz7p354.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txc3h005.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:47:54 -0500")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> IMO, it's not reasonable to have to add
> /home/<USER>/<PROFILE>/bin/<SHELL> for every combination of <USER>,
> <PROFILE>, and <SHELL> to /etc/shells, in order to prevent 'xterm' from
> overriding your $SHELL setting.

On NixOS, /etc/shells contains this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash
/var/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash
/bin/sh
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Where {/var/,}/run/current-system contains the “global” profile, like on
our QEMU images.

Perhaps that’s good enough no?

(As I see it, the stand-alone GNU system will have /bin/sh (as a
symlink) and /run/current-system too.)

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13  8:00 [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells Mark H Weaver
2014-02-13  8:07 ` John Darrington
2014-02-13  8:47   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-13 11:06     ` John Darrington
2014-02-13 13:12     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-02-13 16:29       ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-14 10:59         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-14 12:32           ` John Darrington
2014-02-14 13:30             ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2014-02-14 16:59             ` Ludovic Courtès

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