On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > How about at a blank .bashrc/.profile ...
Most of this stuff is actually set in /etc/profile and friends. But even if you include those, you run into other problems. What about PATH? MAIL? What about locale settings? The occasional program that requires some kind of user environment setup? > ... and leaving commands acting the way they were meant to "out of the > box"? But who gets to decide how they were meant to act? I mean, sure, with the case of "ls", color is off by default. That one is easy. But what about, say, KDE? How was that meant to act "out of the box"? > At the very least, if you want the user to know about possible > "enhancements" comment them out in the files with appropriate warnings > in place. Documentation from distro vendors about what they do would certainly be nice. But that is a whole 'nother thread! :-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
