From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 30 07:27:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCE416A41A for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:27:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@FreeBSD.org) Received: from galain.elvandar.org (galain.elvandar.org [217.148.169.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D67C13C44B for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:27:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost.we-dare.net ([127.0.0.1] helo=galain.elvandar.org) by galain.elvandar.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Iy0HK-000Fa4-Df; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:27:14 +0100 Received: from 194.74.82.3 (SquirrelMail authenticated user remko) by galain.elvandar.org with HTTP; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:27:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <18724.194.74.82.3.1196407634.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:27:14 +0100 (CET) From: "Remko Lodder" To: "Brooks Davis" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of /etc/skel, your opinions please X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:27:16 -0000 On Thu, November 29, 2007 4:24 pm, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:21:06PM +0100, Remko Lodder wrote: >> >> Dear arch@ members, >> >> 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. >> >> 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.. >> >> 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. >> >> 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 > Hello Brooks, First of all thanks for your answer as well, I think the same applies here as I replied to Alexander, is that we should in that case fill /etc/skel with the distribution found in /usr/share/skel (or directly to reduce possible overhead in having it in two directories); if we are not going to persue that I dont see much points in keeping an empty directory? Cheers remko -- /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News