From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:09:08 +0100 From: Martin Neubauer To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] system wide profile for rc(1) Message-ID: <20061212230908.GA1969@shodan.homeunix.net> References: <87irghney0.fsf@jorgito.magma.com.ni> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87irghney0.fsf@jorgito.magma.com.ni> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Topicbox-Message-UUID: f3121bd2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello, I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve there (well, maybe I'm just slow). The net gain I see is two extra lines in rcmain and one additional file (actually two files) doing more or less the same as before. The two main usage scenarios I can think of would be a system used mainly by a single person and a system (or network of systems) used by a potentially large and diverse group of users. For a singleuser system that separation is more or less useless. For a multiuser system it might look like a good idea at first, but I value the convenience of having all settings I might want to customise in one place (especially as I get it via newuser anyway). The newuser script arguably is simpler, but the change really hasn't got anything to do with a system-wide profile and as a downside makes it no longer self-contained. All in all it's a little exercise in establishing a system policy for those who want it. Speaking for myself, it would certainly make me sad to see the rise of the POSIX-rc... Martin