From owner-cvs-share Sat Aug 16 12:22:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06748 for cvs-share-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veda.is (root@veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06723; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ubiq.veda.is (adam@ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by veda.is (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA24633; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 19:21:35 GMT From: Adam David Received: (from adam@localhost) by ubiq.veda.is (8.8.7/8.8.5) id TAA02607; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 19:21:33 GMT Message-Id: <199708161921.TAA02607@ubiq.veda.is> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/skel dot.login dot.profile In-Reply-To: from Wolfram Schneider at "Aug 16, 97 09:05:29 pm" To: wosch@de.freebsd.org (Wolfram Schneider) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 19:21:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ache@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Remove LANG settings from here, they must be in login classes instead > > I object, for various reasons: > > 1. there is no "must", login classes are optional There can be a default for all non-class-specified users. > 2. login classes are not portable, I want share my dot files > with different architectures Is there anything to prevent users defining their own settings in the dotfiles if they so choose? > 3. dot files are user defined, login classes are defined by > system admins Some of the settings can be overridden by users. > 4. the log message lies. You did not remove the variable LANG, > you removed the documentation about LANG. There is not > reason for removing documentation until it is wrong, confusing > or the wrong place. -- Adam David