Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:25:14AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > > Here's a crazy thought. Might you add an installation option, "Default > > shell configuration" > > > > a) (Default) Expert - This setting offers the most compatibility with > > older systems > > 2) Novice - This setting configures the default shell environment with > > defaults that make new user's lives easier. > > > > The text needs to be tweaked, but you get the idea. > > More install-time options?
Please no... > Why can't we just fix the defaults in the programs themselves? See PSARC 2006/587: The POSIX shell standard _requires_ that the shell binary itself does not enable any flags by default - which includes any default editor setting. For full POSIX-conformance the only option is to use an external configuration script - which is in the case of Solaris (as defined in PSARC 2006/587), SuSE Linux etc. "/etc/ksh.kshrc". And bash3 has a similar file called "/etc/bash.bashrc". > That > adds no new knobs, and it has very good update semantics. Right now I am starting to wonder why there is a difference between defaults settings builtin into the binary and the defaults in the /etc/(bash.bashrc|ksh.kshrc) files from the ARC viewpoint. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
