-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16-Jun-99, 07:08 (CDT), Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's so hard about that? If > > > you want pico to be the system wide default (god forbid), set EDITOR in > > > /etc/profile and /etc/cshrc (or whatever it's called). > > > > NOOOOO, hands of /etc/profile. > > Huh? It's his machine. He's free to do whatever he wants with > /etc/profile, just as any sysadmin may do. It's trivial for a user > to override. This actually leads nicely into something I've been thinking about for a few years. One of the things that really annoys me about prepackaged distributions is the way they tend to ignore everything that isn't in packages. E.g., the only way to get non-deb GTK themes in /usr/local/share/themes recognized by the GTK config is to link them into /usr/share/themes, which is really ugly. Same with WindowMaker themes. I definitely don't think any prepackaged binaries should install themselves or any components into /usr/local; OTOH, I don't think it should just ignore things installed there, because it seems that /usr/local is exactly where you would want to put things like manually installed themes. How does this connect with the already ensuing conversation? See for yourself: *** profile.orig Wed Jun 16 12:03:43 1999 - --- profile Wed Jun 16 12:04:01 1999 *************** *** 7,9 **** - --- 7,10 ---- umask 002 test -x /usr/bin/check-sendfile && /usr/bin/check-sendfile || /bin/true + test -f /usr/local/etc/profile && . /usr/local/etc/profile I know that a solution like this would make my life as a sysadmin much easier when installing new machines or reinstalling a machine (as I had to do last week when I got a new HD), because I could tar up /usr/local, untar it on the new machine, and everything on the new machine would magically work. (There might be an issue in this example regarding the time that the /usr/local tree is mounted, but that's another story...) Kyle
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