On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
[snip]
> > Why don't we use "export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc" in /etc/profile, instead?
> > (Would this make patching unnecessary?)
>
> Because the goal is to have _both_ a system-wide inputrc _and_ a
> user-specific one.
Correct. The second reason for this is that we have a (yet implicit)
policy that now package may depend on public environment to get reasonable
defaults. That's mainly because not all shells do parse /etc/profile.
Thanks,
Chris
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