Please, make /etc/skel/.bashrc and root's .bashrc identical. Yes, you may make them both as empty as you want. But there is no any need in keeping them different.
When I create new system, I edit this files using my scripts. This is part of my scripts: sed -i 's/^#force_color_prompt=yes$/force_color_prompt=yes/' ~/.bashrc sudo sed -i 's/^\(# \|\)PS1=.*$/PS1='\''\\[\\033[1m\\]\\u@\\h:\\w\\$\\[\\033[0m\\] '\''/' /root/.bashrc As you can see, I have to handle this bashrc's different, because they are different. Yes, I can just copy /etc/skel/.bashrc into /root/.bashrc. But then this would be kludge. Why users of the system have to do such copy? Why not just make this files identical upstream? Please, fix this in stretch or at least in buster. So that when new debian release is deployed, I will not use such kludges any more. Also, please, make whole /etc/skel be copied into /root at installation time. This will merge /etc/skel/.bashrc with /root/.bashrc and same for .profile etc. == Askar Safin
