My suggestion is that until the option is fixed a) The option produce a warning that it's ignored b) The documentation should reflect that it doesn't work.
One suggestion that was made was that you can use an alternative skeleton file. However this is problematic because the name given is added to the default skeleton path (which may be in a directory that only the sysadmin/root has access to). While on a given system one can work around this limitation, the solution is not very portable. Example skeleton=../../../home/gcb/gcb/gcc/gcc/gcb/myskel.skel If a distro decides to move the directory this will break. Hard to maintain across time and distrobutions. My suggestion is that c) If skeleton name given includes "/" or "\" it is assumed to be the full pathname, otherwise it is assumed to be in the default directory. Would you in principle accept a patch implementing the above? Do I need to do anything to qualify to provide such a patch (which would be quite small). Regards, Tim Josling
