Re: [gentoo-dev] Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

[John R. Graham]

Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> When catalyst builds a stage tarball, it doesn't add any additional
> files. All files in any stage tarball are created by one of the
> packages contained within. In order to do this, a package such as
> baselayout would have to install the file.
>
> Looking at my local install, it's actually bash that creates
> /etc/skel/.bash{rc,_logout,_profile}. You can appeal to the
> maintainer(s) of the bash ebuild (should be the base-system herd) to
> add that functionality, but I really doubt you'll convince them.
I understand.  Philosophically, it probably fits better in something
like sys-apps/miscfiles.  But where it should or shouldn't come from
doesn't answer the fundamental question, "Shouldn't it be there, from
*some* source?"

- John
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