Hello,
I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve there (well, maybe I'm just
slow). The net gain I see is two extra lines in rcmain and one additional
file (actually two files) doing more or less the same as before. The two
main usage scenarios I can think of would be a system used mainly by a
single person and a system (or network of systems) used by a potentially
large and diverse group of users. For a singleuser system that separation
is more or less useless. For a multiuser system it might look like a good
idea at first, but I value the convenience of having all settings I might
want to customise in one place (especially as I get it via newuser anyway).
The newuser script arguably is simpler, but the change really hasn't got
anything to do with a system-wide profile and as a downside makes it no
longer self-contained.
All in all it's a little exercise in establishing a system policy for those
who want it. Speaking for myself, it would certainly make me sad to see the
rise of the POSIX-rc...
Martin
