Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm 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 Message-ID: <20020731035757.37700.qmail@web10104.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 05:57:57 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sylvain=20Petreolle?= Subject: Re: Skel files To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com, John Morrison Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com, Cygwin In-Reply-To: <3D46B5AE.469F6634@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit if you create the skel package (as in Linux), no one will be forced to use it in any way... > Examples are fine. Forcing the user to have them would be a pain, > IMO. > It complicates the install process beyond what is needed. These > files > are for the user to modify there environment to their specific need, > not > what someone else dreams up as a standard user environment. The > standard environment should only be controlled by the /etc/profile, > etc. > files. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/