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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:46:38 +0000
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Subject: Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 9 March 2011 09:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar =C2=A09 08:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> >> On Mar =C2=A08 13:49, David Sastre wrote:
>> >>> if TMP/TEMP has to be unset, or set to /tmp per default, or any
>> >>> other default
>> >>> decided here, that is something to be done in /etc/profile, IMHO.
>>
>> One more thought on this: LANG is set to C.UTF-8 in
>> /etc/profile.d/lang.{c,}sh, which allows users to change or delete
>> that without stopping /etc/profile from being updated. This approach
>> might be appropriate here as well.
>
> That's certainly feasible in some way, but I don't understand what
> you're trying to accomplish. =C2=A0In what situation would this have to be
> changed on a per-system level? =C2=A0Why isn't it sufficient that the
> user can change it in the own user profiles?

I don't know, but the same questions could be asked about
/etc/profile.d/lang.{c,}sh.

Andy

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