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Re: Skel files
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com, John Morrison <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com, Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 05:57:57 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Skel files
if you create the skel package (as in Linux), no one will be forced to
use it in any way...
> Examples are fine. Forcing the user to have them would be a pain,
> IMO.
> It complicates the install process beyond what is needed. These
> files
> are for the user to modify there environment to their specific need,
> not
> what someone else dreams up as a standard user environment. The
> standard environment should only be controlled by the /etc/profile,
> etc.
> files.
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