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On Dec  1 16:59, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/1/2009 4:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Dec  1 19:24, John Morrison wrote:
> >>On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>>OK, my patch is attached.  It anticipates the change to the default
> >>>.bashrc file that we've been discussing in the thread cited above.
> >>Hi Ken,
> >>
> >>While I think it's a good idea to point out that they are (will be) unset
> >>in the users .bashrc I'm not sure it's a good idea to tell people where
> >>the default (/etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc) is, since this will be
> >>overwritten by the base package.  If people want to maintain their own set
> >>of changes which is used in future that the package does not overwrite
> >>/etc/skel/.bashrc is what they should edit.  However, since the skel files
> >>are only copied *once* ~/.bashrc should be the first point of call.
> >>
> >>Hope that makes sense!
> >
> >Good point.
> 
> I agree.  A revised patch is attached.

Thank you.  I've applied your patch with Eric's change.


Corinna

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