Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

[(Joe Wells \\(reverse mailbox letters only for non-public replies\\))]

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Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> writes:

> Joe Wells wrote:
>> The best solution to this that I can think of is to extend OpenSSH
>> with the capability to copy terminfo information to ~/.terminfo on the
>> remote system.
>
> IMHO automated overwriting files in $HOME on every login is a *very* bad
> thing.

Hi, Jan!

In reply, my first question is:  What makes you think files would be
overwritten?  These would be new files.  Look at how the terminfo
database is structured.  Adding a new terminal description is done by
adding a new file (possibly in a new directory, if there are no other
descriptions whose name begins with the same character).

My second question is:  What would be wrong with overwriting files in
$HOME on every login?  I currently have a bunch of files/directories
in $HOME (e.g., .history, .gconfd, .fonts.cache-1, .bash_history,
.recently-used, .Xauthority, .macromedia, .adobe, .subversion, .nvu,
.gnome, .mozilla, .java, etc.), that regularly get overwritten by
various random programs, without my asking, and things continue to
work.  Some of these changes even automatically happen every time I
log in.  The SSH program regularly rewrites files (e.g.,
~/.ssh/known_hosts) successfully.

> And if you wanted to remove those "-via-ssh-#" lines after
> logout, what will happen if your connection hungs?

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the question at all.  What
"-via-ssh-#" lines?  There are no such lines in my proposal.

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