X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:35:20 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Environment variable documentation Message-ID: <20091202093520.GP8059@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B14415D.1050701@cornell.edu> <20091201094531.GE30043@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B154539.1030007@cornell.edu> <9f430e801d8adcf5868e1c5cf4276b43.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <20091201210835.GL8059@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B1591CD.7050709@cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B1591CD.7050709@cornell.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple