I'm not sure what you mean by adjusting path for root. The only places where the path is set are in the icon and menu item, which are not intended for root. Any other use of tcl/tk requires PATH to be set manually anyway, whether you're root or not. This is mentioned in the readme.
Maybe you're bringing up an issue that I haven't seen? I've never had any reason to run wish as root, so I could only guess.
In any case, I had built version 8.4.14 in DSL last year and forgot about it. Just running some tests on it for a day or two before uploading.
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Maybe you're bringing up an issue that I haven't seen? I've never had any reason to run wish as root, so I could only guess.
If someone wants universal access to wish, he could just symlink to /usr/bin. Then root can run it without problem. (That's what I chose to do rather than edit PATHs, but root access wasn't what I had in mind when I did it that way.)Many different ways to get what you need in *nix =o)
My own methods change depending on the current circumstances...what kind of package it is, whether it's installed automatically every time i boot or if i hook it up manually just when i want it, whether I'm in my custom-configured DSL or a vanilla testing session. Sometimes I modify PATH, particularly if there is more than one executable in the program...sometimes I'll make a symlink in $HOME/bin (I *always* create a $HOME/bin directory and add it to the top of PATH if the distro doesn't already do that)...sometimes an alias is more convenient....sometimes I have a half-dozen little wrapper scripts for certain applications.
One thing I don't do in DSL, though, is add files outside of /ramdisk, apart from a couple of files backed up from /etc. Usually that means nothing goes to /usr or /bin, unless I'm compiling stuff. It's not that I think it's a bad idea; I just try to stay as close to the original state of DSL as possible, as more of a challenge than a necessity.An updated tcl/tk 8.4.14 uci package, including headers, has been submitted to the repository, so that should be available in...a while or so.Excellent, and thank you. :-)Next Page...
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