Re: fndir introspection, site-packages documentation

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:08:29 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I will
> however note that I think --disable-site-fndir ought to do exactly that,
> and the documentation blurb is what needs fixing.  If the shell is being
> configured for some kind of secure/embedded environment, removing all
> access to locally added functions is perfectly reasonable.

Yes, that seems right.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bf8969b..5b776ba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ Changes since 5.0.0
   exist.  Sites that set an explicit site directory can put that in
   /etc/zshenv as before.  The intention of the new path element is to
   increase the likelihood that locally added functions can be found with
-  the shell running "out of the box", no matter how the shell was
-  configured.
+  the shell running "out of the box", unless the shell has been
+  deliberately configured differently by the installer for some special
+  purpose.
 
 - Individual pattern characters can be disabled.  For example, to allow '^'
   to be an ordinary character even if the option EXTENDED_GLOB is set, use