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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:12:55 +0100
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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 =E2=80=9Cglobal=E2=80=9D pro=
file, like on
our QEMU images.

Perhaps that=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99.