On 13 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> They need their own rc file, but then, so do many of our 11 login shells
> in hamm/main. I think the policy should be codified.

I agreed. I'll prepare something for the next policy weekly.


Thanks,

Chris

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