setup.exe remove scripts [Was: Re: experimental texmf packages]
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Sat Nov 3 22:09:00 GMT 2001
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:40:52AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > I believe that the prompt reflects DJ Delorie's prompt preference, which
> > was, apparently, two lines.
> >
>
> I agree, although I don't dislike it.
>
> > *I'd* prefer no prompt setting at all, actually. I think that prompt
> > setting should be up to the user or the local sysadmin. AFAICT, even
> > Red Hat doesn't try to make a prompt decision for you.
> >
>
> I'd prefer no prompt setting also by default but leave the PS1 commented
> out for an example of use. The problem with the current PS1 is that
> it's SHELL specific, I.E.: it only works in bash.
Agree. I'm still for giving a nice PS1 by default (aka not '$ ')
but it should get simplified so that it works for all bourne shell
clones.
In general a question raises (again, perhaps?): Shouldn't we provide
a default /etc/csh.login file as well? At least as part of the tcsh
package?
Corinna
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