Roy Marples wrote: > No it's not. bash does not recommend anything of the sort. It just > states what files are optionally used during initialisation. > > What I'm driving at is that you're making claims that things are broken > or recommended when in fact they are not. Try reading some RFC's and > then you'll have a clearer (hopefully!!) understanding of the words MUST > and SHOULD. Also you'll understand that if those words are not present > then it's entirely optional. I fully recommend reading RFC 2131 [1] as > I'm very well acquainted with it and it also provides lots of good > examples of these words :) > > Thanks > > Roy > > [1] http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=2131 > > PS - This does not necessarily mean I think /etc/skel files in /root is > a bad thing, I just think you're going completely the wrong way about > getting this done. > > Roy, thanks for the advice. Obviously I misstated some things. However, man pages and info docs are written in more colloquial language than formal specifications. Anyway, I promise not to beat the dead horse.
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