Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:15:56 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Tom Torrance at home <tom@tomqnx.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggestion Message-ID: <19981212151556.R5444@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <m0zoYHi-000I5lC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com>; from Tom Torrance at home on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 02:31:30PM -0500 References: <m0zoYHi-000I5lC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com>
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On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Tom Torrance at home wrote: > Modify the source tree such that the contents of /usr/share/skel > do not get automatically updated with make world (treat like /etc). > > If significant updates are made to the system standard for local > use, this would be much appreciated... This mod would be wrong. The user is _not_ supposed to need to edit /usr. The right solution would probably be to move /usr/share/skel to /etc/skel, or to provide a way of re-directing where the skel files are looked for. Do you feel enough about this to supply patches? Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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