John Morrison wrote: > > Hi Gerrit :) > > > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Hallo John, > > > > Am Sonntag, 28. Juli 2002 um 17:13 schriebst du: > > > > > I also don't know how to indicate to the user that this package has > > > changed. Should it copy the current profile to, for example, > > > profile-old-`date`? Should it do anything at all? > > > > If the current /etc/profile is removed then there should be a backup. > > Anyway there should be a short note that there was a change which > > needs investigation. > >
I don't know that this should occur, however, any user specific profile settings should be in the ~/.bash_profile and/or ~/.profile files. User specific changes to /etc/profile should be discouraged. So a backup of the current /etc/profile file is more than adequate. You know, I was going to be negative about this but talked myself into a positive before getting far into the post. > > [...] > > > > >> # see: http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html#Bash > > > <snip/> > > > > > again, this should be part of the bash package. > > > > You are the maintainer... > > If .inputrc is used by more than one shell, I'll be happy to > add/maintain it. For that matter, if the bash maintainer doesn't > believe [s]he should... > I disagree with forcing the user to a generic ~/.inputrc. Giving an example in the home directory would be a good thing but not more than that. > J. > > (PS, I'm subscribed ;) By this I assume you to mean that you don't need to be listed in the distribution. You need to set the Reply-To header if you want that to happen. See the archives of many lists for explanations. Earnie.
