Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Steve Long wrote: >> Great. What exactly? How does fulfilling the user requirement with >> vapier's solution mess up catalyst? > > This is the the first time I've heard of a user requesting this change. It > seems to me that many people prefer to *not* have a .bash{rc,_profile} in > /root, which is the way it's always been. Why not just add the ability to > copy these files with 'emerge --config' to certain ebuilds, and then add a > note to the handbook telling users to run the command if they want to? > > Even better, just tell the users to run 'cp -a /etc/skel/* /root/' if they > really want the stuff, and not modify any ebuilds at all? > That sounds fine to me; my personal feeling is that I prefer to set my own stuff up, and certainly don't want ebuilds touching /root. Having a sane default in the stage 3 for new users seemed reasonable, however, and as vapier said that can only be done when building the stage.
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