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On Saturday 22 September 2007, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Steve Long wrote: |
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> > Great. What exactly? How does fulfilling the user requirement with |
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> > vapier's solution mess up catalyst? |
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> This is the the first time I've heard of a user requesting this change. It |
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> seems to me that many people prefer to *not* have a .bash{rc,_profile} in |
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> /root |
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sure, people with irrational (from the point of Gentoo) fears |
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actually read the default files and you'll see they're pretty much helpful |
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explanatory comments ... except for the logout file where it runs `clear` and |
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no one wants *that* for root |
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> which is the way it's always been. |
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on Gentoo, yes, it's been this way *so far*, but not for other distros |
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> Why not just add the ability to |
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> copy these files with 'emerge --config' to certain ebuilds, and then add a |
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> note to the handbook telling users to run the command if they want to? |
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running commands to get a sane default is not user friendly |
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> Even better, just tell the users to run 'cp -a /etc/skel/* /root/' if they |
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> really want the stuff, and not modify any ebuilds at all? |
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since it wont work at all ... i dont think ive ever seen /etc/skel/ have |
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something which didnt start with a . |
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-mike |