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Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 1997 10:36:36 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@de.freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/skel dot.login dot.profile
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970817103105.17193A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
In-Reply-To: <p1iu3gqosna.fsf@panke.panke.de>

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On 16 Aug 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote:

> I object, for various reasons:
> 
> 1. there is no "must", login classes are optional

Localization is optional too. We talk about proper place.
Shell rc files is definitely NOT proper place for localization.

> 2. login classes are not portable, I want share my dot files
>    with different architectures

Localization is not portable too, almost each system have different
LANG naming convention and different code tables.

> 3. dot files are user defined, login classes are defined by
>    system admins

It is simple not true.

> 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.

I remove commented out LANG setting to prevent possible uncommenting it in
wrong place. Good documentation at this place will be reference to
login.class.

> In short words, please undo this commit! 

Only if real reason not to do it will be found.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/




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