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and subject line Please give dircolors a configration file instead of
compiled-in defaults
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/dircolors
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It seems right now that if I want to change system-wide defaults for
dircolors, I must download coreutils source, patch it, and install the
modified version. As changing the dircolors database seems like a
perfectly reasonable thing for the sysadmin to want to do, this really
should be a configuration file.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (130, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.32-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
coreutils recommends no packages.
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I think that the functionality is basically there; you can give
dircolors a configuration file as a parameter, and that can be used to
set the environment. Someone seems to have broken this by overriding the
default environment in the default .bashrc, but that's not something I
can fix from the coreutils package.
Mike Stone
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