Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:24:18 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of /etc/skel, your opinions please Message-ID: <20071129152418.GA76737@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <474DDBC2.3030704@FreeBSD.org> References: <474DDBC2.3030704@FreeBSD.org>
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--BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:21:06PM +0100, Remko Lodder wrote: >=20 > Dear arch@ members, >=20 > I would like to remove /etc/skel from the BSD.root.dist mtree file > since it is no longer being used and I would like to remove unused > items. >=20 > I understood from a PR (46062) that there are no references to this > directory any longer. There is a proposal to symlink this; but I dont > want to keep this alive at all where possible.. >=20 > Does anyone have objections to this change? If so, please let me know > why you have these objections so that I can take them into account. >=20 > Thanks in advance for your time! After reading this I did some searching and was rather surprised to discover that adduser(8) points pw at /usr/share/skel by default. I've always thought of /etc/skel as the default location for skel files. It's true we're not populating /etc/skel by default, but /usr/share/skel isn't actually usable in production since it's overwritten by installworld. I don't see any value in removing the directory from mtree. -- Brooks --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHTtmiXY6L6fI4GtQRAlvkAJ95pg5kaVK+Jg2b9S8p4DKqXIOQ8ACdEvRw P8YMgEKieZ3c3iRw7zik9oo= =xn3g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--
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