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RE: ITP: profile
- From: "John Morrison" <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:07:18 +0100
- Subject: RE: ITP: profile
Hi Gerrit :)
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gp@familiehaase.de]
> Hallo John,
>
> Am Sonntag, 28. Juli 2002 um 17:13 schriebst du:
>
> > I also don't know how to indicate to the user that this package has
> > changed. Should it copy the current profile to, for example,
> > profile-old-`date`? Should it do anything at all?
>
> If the current /etc/profile is removed then there should be a backup.
> Anyway there should be a short note that there was a change which
> needs investigation.
>
> [...]
>
> >> # see: http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html#Bash
> > <snip/>
>
> > again, this should be part of the bash package.
>
> You are the maintainer...
If .inputrc is used by more than one shell, I'll be happy to
add/maintain it. For that matter, if the bash maintainer doesn't
believe [s]he should...
J.
(PS, I'm subscribed ;)