Re: Removal of /etc/skel, your opinions please


On Thu, November 29, 2007 4:24 pm, Brooks Davis wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:21:06PM +0100, Remko Lodder wrote:

Dear arch@ members,

I would like to remove /etc/skel from the BSD.root.dist mtree file
since it is no longer being used and I would like to remove unused
items.

I understood from a PR (46062) that there are no references to this
directory any longer. There is a proposal to symlink this; but I dont
want to keep this alive at all where possible..

Does anyone have objections to this change? If so, please let me know
why you have these objections so that I can take them into account.

Thanks in advance for your time!

After reading this I did some searching and was rather surprised to
discover that adduser(8) points pw at /usr/share/skel by default.
I've always thought of /etc/skel as the default location for skel
files. It's true we're not populating /etc/skel by default, but
/usr/share/skel isn't actually usable in production since it's
overwritten by installworld.

I don't see any value in removing the directory from mtree.

-- Brooks


Hello Brooks,

First of all thanks for your answer as well, I think the same applies here
as I replied to Alexander, is that we should in that case fill /etc/skel
with the distribution found in /usr/share/skel (or directly to reduce
possible overhead in having it in two directories); if we are not going to
persue that I dont see much points in keeping an empty directory?

Cheers
remko

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