On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 04:46:07PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > 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.
No, tcsh for example does not. Do the C shells fit in this policy? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
