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RE: /etc/profile package maintainer (Was: problems with XFree)


> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@syncretize.net]
> 
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 20:14, David Starks-Browning wrote:
> > On  25 Jul 02, in cygwin-xfree, Robert Collins writes:
> > > I've been trying for *ages* to get /etc/profile to be an 
> external file.
> > > "All' it needs is *someone* willing to be a package 
> maintainer for it.
> > > Hardly an onerous role, yet no one seems willing to do it. 
> > > 
> > > As soon as someone emails me with their willingness, I 
> can provide the
> > > relevant tarall immediately, and that person then can just add
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin to the path in /etc/profile.
> > 
> > Rob,
> > 
> > I'm willing to do this.

Sorry David, I should have ack'd this publically.

> Thanks for the offer David... John Marshall has already volunteered

I think you mean me ;)

J.

> off-list though (after a few questions to ascertain the work it
> entails.)
> 
> I don't care who maintains it - I'm going to work on the basis of it
> being John until I'm told otherwise :}.
> 
> Rob
> 


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