From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13698 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2000 18:07:47 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Jul 2000 18:07:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 24831 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2000 18:07:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12282 Received: (qmail 24823 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2000 18:07:30 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:07:28 +0100 From: Adam Spiers To: zsh workers mailing list Subject: Re: adding a toplevel zsh.spec.in file Message-ID: <20000717190728.A9091@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: Adam Spiers Mail-Followup-To: zsh workers mailing list References: <1000707181834.ZM1473@candle.brasslantern.com> <20000717160933.B6739@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> <1000717174853.ZM22633@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <1000717174853.ZM22633@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:48:53PM +0000 X-Home-Page: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/ X-OS: RedHat Linux Bart Schaefer (schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com) wrote: > I agree that these don't do much harm, but this is bad: > > } HISTSIZE=1000 > } HISTFILE=~/.zshhistory > } SAVEHIST=1000 > > Please don't mess with the shape of my history or the location of any of > my dotfiles. Why is this messing with your preferences? It's only setting a default which each user can override, surely? > } Now here's a candidate for StartupFiles/RedHat/zshrc. Anything badly > } wrong? > > Yes. Don't screw with my fpath and don't autoload functions for me. Again, I must be missing something because I don't see why you describe this as messing with /your/ fpath when at that stage you (the user) haven't made any changes to it. You are still free to set it to whatever you want, aren't you? The only possible problem I can envisage is that something gets autoloaded which you didn't want to be, but if you didn't want it autoloaded, you won't be using it anyway. What am I missing? > Your assumptions about where under my home directory there might be > functions are wrong, I wanted to err on the side of convenience. If those directories exist, the likelihood is that they contain stuff which the user will want to use. If they don't, they don't get included. What's the harm? > and if your RPM is built correctly there shouldn't be anything > useful in /usr/doc/zsh*/Functions -- the only things that could be there > are leftovers from some 3.0.x-y RPM, which you don't want to pick up. Yep, this is a remnant from old code. > I won't call the aliases "badly" wrong, but I object to them anyway, I'm curious now. Why? > and I'd just as soon not have all that crap in my prompt, thanks. Just another default, surely? I have a nasty feeling I've missed a key point here.