Re: base-files revisited

2019-04-08 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-04-08 12:25, Achim Gratz wrote: > John Morrison writes: >> The company won't allow anything to be installed directly from the internet. >> We were going to create a local mirror repo of the things which are allowed >> to be installed along with a 'package script' which will call setup with

Re: base-files revisited

2019-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
John Morrison writes: > The company won't allow anything to be installed directly from the internet. > We were going to create a local mirror repo of the things which are allowed > to be installed along with a 'package script' which will call setup with > the appropriate commands. That sounds more

Re: base-files revisited

2019-04-08 Thread John Morrison
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 08:05, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-04-06 08:08, John Morrison wrote: > > I've been asked at work to get the standard base-files extended with > > specifics for the company I work for and wondered if this would be a good > > time to revisit how the .bashrc file in particular

Re: base-files revisited

2019-04-08 Thread John Morrison
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 17:56, Achim Gratz wrote: > John Morrison writes: > > I've been asked at work to get the standard base-files extended with > > specifics for the company I work for and wondered if this would be a good > > time to revisit how the .bashrc file in particular is put together. >

Re: base-files revisited

2019-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
John Morrison writes: > I've been asked at work to get the standard base-files extended with > specifics for the company I work for and wondered if this would be a good > time to revisit how the .bashrc file in particular is put together. > > What I was considering would be introducing a ~/.bashrc.

Re: base-files revisited

2019-04-08 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-04-06 08:08, John Morrison wrote: > I've been asked at work to get the standard base-files extended with > specifics for the company I work for and wondered if this would be a good > time to revisit how the .bashrc file in particular is put together. > > What I was considering would be int

Re: base-files revisited

2019-04-07 Thread Chris Wagner
Personally I wouldn't want to see yet another .directory in home. Endless fractionation of config is one of the things about unix that irks me. This is not to say that there aren't perfectly valid use cases for YACF (yet another config file). Perhaps this would be best served by a new shell