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Re: PATCH: Re: adding a toplevel zsh.spec.in file
- X-seq: zsh-workers 12303
- From: teg@xxxxxxxxxx (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
- To: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: adding a toplevel zsh.spec.in file
- Date: 18 Jul 2000 14:22:26 -0400
- Cc: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx>, zsh workers mailing list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- In-reply-to: Zefram's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 02:56:04 +0100 (BST)"
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- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <E13EMc8-0005yL-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Sender: teg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> >In /etc/zshenv:
> >
> > export USER=`id -un`
> > export LOGNAME=$USER
> > export HOSTNAME=$HOST
> >
> > # this only on appropriate boxes of course
> > export MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER
>
> These, if they exist at all (which is OK if done right), should be in
> /etc/zprofile, and duplicated in /etc/profile. They should be set
> on *login*, not for every shell I start -- if I want to set MAIL to
> somewhere different, that setting should propagate to any subshells I run.
>
> > HISTSIZE=1000
> > HISTFILE=~/.zshhistory
> > SAVEHIST=1000
>
> No way. zsh has a perfectly well-established default behaviour
> w.r.t. history saving, and if I don't override it I should get zsh's
> default, not whatever some RPM builder thought might be nice.
>
> > export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
In Red Hat Linux, we do this:
if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
The reason for this is to make bash 1.x handle 8 bit input - we don't
set anything else.
> My environment is my own.
Of course, and you're free to change it in your own files - but that
doesn't mean systems should be set up with sensible values (like
specifying NNTPSERVER, MAIL, QTDIR etc. etc).
> >Now here's a candidate for StartupFiles/RedHat/zshrc. Anything badly
> >wrong?
> ...
> ># Set up aliases
> >alias mv='nocorrect mv' # no spelling correction on mv
> >alias cp='nocorrect cp' # no spelling correction on cp
> >alias mkdir='nocorrect mkdir' # no spelling correction on mkdir
>
> Evil.
Agreed. Such changes should be in a user's own configuration files.
> >PS1='%n@%m %B%3~%b %# ' # default prompt
>
> Just don't. As before, you're overriding a perfectly reasonable
> default and imposing your arbitrary tastes on people.
If it makes sense, do it - it's just another default, a user can
override it. The default BASH prompt is "bash-2.04#", and changing
this to something more sensible is good (IMHO, of course - and if you
don't like it, pick your own).
> So here's my recomendation for zsh RPM builders: ship no /etc/zshrc,
> /etc/zshenv, /etc/zlogin or /etc/zlogout, and have /etc/zprofile
> be a symbolic link -> profile. (This still leaves a broken Red Hat
> /etc/profile, but that's outside the scope of a zsh package.)
It's not broken, it's just not designed to handle zsh - it's designed
to handle bash only. Fixing this (setting another default prompt for
zsh) should be simple if required.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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