So sprach Chmouel Boudjnah am Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:55:23AM +0100:
> yup but here we speak about default configuration of basic user. but
Understood. But, as you put it, 'basic users' will do neither. They won't
mess with their config files, I suppose. And especially for basic users,
I'd say that the fewer the user config files contain, the better. Because
if there's nothing in their config files, they cannot break anything.
> # If exist a ~/.alias and the user hasn't specified a
> # LOAD_SYSTEM_ALIAS variables then don't do any system aliases
Will 'LOAD_SYSTEM_ALIAS' be set by default? I would hope so, because if
not, it would mean that users might suddenly find themselves without aliases
set just because they (or whoever/whatever) created a file called .alias.
It's nice that a .alias file will be supported, but why should it *disable*
loading of the system aliases?
If a user figures out how to set aliases in the first place, is it really
that far reached to assume that he'll also know about 'unalias'? If it's
not (which I suppose), then I don't get why aliases shouldn't be put in
/etc/profile.d/alias.sh
> > I'd also think that /etc/skel should be nearly completely empty.
> > Everything should go into systemwide configuration files,
>
> yep normally but some thing need to let the user do it.
Parse error :) I think the current (?) /etc/skel/.bashrc is very nice:
# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bash_alias ];then
. ~/.bash_alias
fi
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
That's what it should be like!
Oh, BTW: Would it be possible to add /etc/profile.d/local.{sh,csh}, which
should be empty files which also should never, ever be changed by an RPM
upgrade? I think the mere existance of these files would make it clear to
people/admins that only this file, and never /etc/profile should be used to
adjust local settings.
Alexander Skwar
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