From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 12 06:16:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27804 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 06:16:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27748 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 06:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA20189; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:15:57 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA24244; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:15:57 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981212151556.R5444@follo.net> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:15:56 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Tom Torrance at home , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggestion References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Torrance at home on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 02:31:30PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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