From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 13:34:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D55106566B; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:34:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630588FC08; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcwo16 with SMTP id wo16so10779745obc.13 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:34:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=be7f1+L+l/R7+UQgZQ8Zg3YZgufWZ8jb9eLM/0VrLGg=; b=soh8QJARXaRh9XX4E5SgNgGz1DnK5Eqetf1/mMGrqIcWvM8+Q/w4v6umdhh7NruzUO MHuf1XXm97qIPXmzb6IdqabhKTTx6gFnQgKJesQEoT8nEH+nCr1/bga6vzGiGmp66yub +65tJXWY/aO5fwiPHhjZWsrg0irTmc3aboXQY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.49.104 with SMTP id t8mr15461652obn.13.1329226463007; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:34:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.91.131 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:34:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1328887627.38277.68.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:34:22 -0600 Message-ID: From: Astrodog To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Chris Rees , Colin Percival , freebsd-current Current , "Wojciech A. Koszek" Subject: Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:34:23 -0000 On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog wrote: >> Personally, I pay very little attention to the prompt. That being said..= . >> Plenty of people prefer widely different configurations for the prompt. >> I think everyone agrees that the default prompt isn't particularly >> informative, however, achieving consensus here is going to be almost >> impossible. I suggest that it be handled as a seperate discussion, >> perhaps? > > That would result in even more of a bikeshed than this thread. I'm > pretty sure I'm going to go with one of the prompts posted to this > thread after a bit of experimentation. > Remember that the prompts are for inexperienced users and those of you > with awesome prompts are not the target audience for the change. I'm not actually against any of the prompts that have been suggested. They're all fine with me. I use too many shared machines, or use machines temporarly to expect anything at all from the prompt anyway. > >> I am against this change, barring a more compelling reason to include >> it. Default behavior limits $PATH to areas that are only writable as >> root, and there is no garuntee that $HOME can only be written by the >> user. As a result, the change may create unanticipated and unnoticed >> security consequences some installations. I believe this outweighs the >> functionality provided by the proposed change, given how trivial this >> is to configure after the fact. > > =A0set path =3D (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin > /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin) > > is the default > Whoops. I should have known a couple of years ago that adding a handful of random patches to my build machine wasn't a great idea.