Environment variable documentation

[Ken Brown]

On 12/1/2009 4:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  1 19:24, John Morrison wrote:
>> On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> OK, my patch is attached.  It anticipates the change to the default
>>> .bashrc file that we've been discussing in the thread cited above.
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> While I think it's a good idea to point out that they are (will be) unset
>> in the users .bashrc I'm not sure it's a good idea to tell people where
>> the default (/etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc) is, since this will be
>> overwritten by the base package.  If people want to maintain their own set
>> of changes which is used in future that the package does not overwrite
>> /etc/skel/.bashrc is what they should edit.  However, since the skel files
>> are only copied *once* ~/.bashrc should be the first point of call.
>>
>> Hope that makes sense!
> 
> Good point.

I agree.  A revised patch is attached.

Ken
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