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John R. Graham wrote: |
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> On the forums, I've seen the question, "Why isn't my .bashrc being |
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> executed when I log in as root but is being executed when I log in as a |
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> normal user?," asked half a dozen times on the forums. Heck, I even |
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> asked it myself a few years ago. Now, two years later, from a slightly |
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> more mature level of domain knowledge, I have to ask why the root cause |
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> shouldn't be addressed. Why can't the simple little default |
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> .bash_profile from /etc/skel be put into /root as well? |
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When catalyst builds a stage tarball, it doesn't add any additional files. All |
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files in any stage tarball are created by one of the packages contained within. |
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In order to do this, a package such as baselayout would have to install the file. |
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Looking at my local install, it's actually bash that creates |
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/etc/skel/.bash{rc,_logout,_profile}. You can appeal to the maintainer(s) of the |
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bash ebuild (should be the base-system herd) to add that functionality, but I |
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really doubt you'll convince them. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator |
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