From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28269 invoked from network); 17 Mar 1999 09:15:16 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Mar 1999 09:15:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 29136 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 1999 09:12:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5833 Received: (qmail 29119 invoked from network); 17 Mar 1999 09:12:22 -0000 Sender: B.Stephens@isode.com To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Out of the box user experience References: <9903161337.AA61220@ibmth.df.unipi.it> <14062.33271.114859.375989@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Bruce Stephens Date: 16 Mar 1999 16:26:39 +0000 In-Reply-To: Bart Schaefer's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:08:23 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Bart Schaefer writes: > Please let's NOT encourage admins to installed canned /etc/z* files. > They very seldom accomplish what the admin thought they would, and I > don't want to give anyone the impression that StartupFiles contains > stuff that we believe should appear in /etc/z* -- because it > doesn't. I wasn't suggesting that! I agree absolutely that administrators should consider carefully what, if anything, should go into /etc/z*. > > I'm guessing they regard the example functions and things as > > documentation, and install it into /usr/doc/zsh-$ZSH_VERSION. > > Yes; `rpm -ql zsh` says: [...] Right, that all looks sensible. I still like the idea of installing scripts into $prefix/share or something, and defining a convenience variable that points at them. If nobody beats me to it, I may make a patch for that. Would it be helpful if I wrote an RPM spec file? (I have no experience whatsoever in doing this, but I've been reading about it recently.)