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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 22 September 2007, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Steve Long wrote:
> > Great. What exactly? How does fulfilling the user requirement with
> > vapier's solution mess up catalyst?
>
> This is the the first time I've heard of a user requesting this change. It
> seems to me that many people prefer to *not* have a .bash{rc,_profile} in
> /root

sure, people with irrational (from the point of Gentoo) fears

actually read the default files and you'll see they're pretty much helpful 
explanatory comments ... except for the logout file where it runs `clear` and 
no one wants *that* for root

> which is the way it's always been.

on Gentoo, yes, it's been this way *so far*, but not for other distros

> Why not just add the ability to
> copy these files with 'emerge --config' to certain ebuilds, and then add a
> note to the handbook telling users to run the command if they want to?

running commands to get a sane default is not user friendly

> Even better, just tell the users to run 'cp -a /etc/skel/* /root/' if they
> really want the stuff, and not modify any ebuilds at all?

since it wont work at all ... i dont think ive ever seen /etc/skel/ have 
something which didnt start with a .
-mike