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From: Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:04:36
Message-Id: 46F25E9B.2060806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs? by "John R. Graham"
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4 John R. Graham wrote:
5 > But, hasn't anyone realized that bash is _broken_ if this file doesn't
6 > exist? Quoting from the upstream-provided man page, "When an
7 > interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and
8 > executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists." Is that really
9 > the intention here? To break upstream-defined behavior?
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11 John,
12 From the section you quoted there, there's absolutely no indication
13 that a .bashrc file *must* exist, in fact, they even explicitly add the
14 "if that file exists" to show acceptance of the fact that it might not...
15 Mike 5:)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs? "John R. Graham" <n3440d@×××××.com>