From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12842 invoked from network); 21 May 2001 13:42:59 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 May 2001 13:42:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 4234 invoked by alias); 21 May 2001 13:42:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 14410 Received: (qmail 4161 invoked from network); 21 May 2001 13:42:41 -0000 To: Wayne Davison Cc: Andrej Borsenkow , Zsh Workers , Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 - compinit in /etc/zshrc References: From: Chmouel Boudjnah Date: 21 May 2001 15:40:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Wayne Davison's message of "Sun, 20 May 2001 02:10:39 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.0.102 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Wayne Davison writes: > No, it's not overkill, it's the vital part of the puzzle that makes > using /etc/skel work. In the past when I (and others) have suggested > using /etc/skel, the packagers have said "what about existing users?" > and then they put the commands into a global init file so that it > affects everyone, old and new users alike. Having all packages that > install /etc/skel files give the files to existing users (safely) > would take away this objection. and how do you do when you have to modify the skel file on upgrade ?