On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”) > > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user > accounts by adduser. No other program should reference the files in > /etc/skel. > > Therefore, if a program needs a dotfile to exist in advance in $HOME > to work sensibly, that dotfile should be installed in /etc/skel and > treated as a configuration file.
Even if a package did this, it wouldn't cause that file to be propagated into *existing* user home directories. It would only show up for newly created users.