Re: [Fink-devel] Shell startup should warn if init.* fails

[Dave V. <va...@us...>]

On Jun 27, 2004, at 8:07 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 1. The users that complain about the error message now will complain 
> about the warning as well. You would have to include into the warning 
> an explanation of how to purge the startup script so that the warning 
> goes away. A reasonably-sized understandable warning is probably more 
> difficult to write than a "remove-fink" script that does this purging 
> automatically.
>
> 2. Worse than a ~/.cshrc that breaks is a ~/.cshrc that produces text 
> output. It will break configure scripts in hard-to-debug ways, for 
> example. There would have to be some non-trivial logic to make sure 
> the warning is only written when the output goes to a terminal.

So why not just leave it like this?

[ -f /sw/bin/init.sh ] && . /sw/bin/init.sh  # http://url.to/explanation

If it's not there, we simply fail silently. The vast majority of users 
will never notice it, and the ones that do can follow the URL.

Dave