Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:25:30 +0100 (CET) From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of /etc/skel, your opinions please Message-ID: <17978.194.74.82.3.1196407530.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org>
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On Thu, November 29, 2007 10:47 am, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> (from Wed, 28 Nov 2007 > 22:21:06 +0100): > >> >> 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. > > Not an objection, just something to think about: Do we want to > deprecate the use of "adduser -k /etc/skel"? I know you said you just > want to remove the directory, and every admin is allowed to create it > again, but by removing the directory from the mtree file, we give a > signal into the direction of deprecation. > > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- Hello Alexander, You do have a point there actually :-), what we can do in the install phase (initially "make distribution", later on when the system is already installed, manage this through "mergemaster") is install all files from /usr/share/skel to /etc/skel and actually use it. If we dont want to do that, why should we keep on carrying the directory then? Cheers remko -- /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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