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

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 20:52 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 20 September 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > Also, my plan for this would be add the copying of the .bash* files
> > from /etc/skel if and only if USE=build *and* the files do not already
> > exist, done during pkg_preinst/pkg_postinst somewhere.  This will pull
> > it into the stage1 tarball, making it available to everyone on all
> > further stages, it keeps it from being done every time someone emerges
> > bash, it doesn't stomp on existing files, and it doesn't show up in VDB
> > linked to the bash package.  Is this acceptable?
>
> no, bash is not a special case
>
> why not add an `emerge --config baselayout` to the end of stage3 and i'll do
> the /root/ default setup in the baselayout ebuild

I'd rather not do anything that isn't accomplished automatically by the
ebuild when it is being merged.  If this really is so objectionable, I'd
just assume WONTFIX the request and move on with it.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
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Gentoo Foundation