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Re: System Dotfiles (was Re: /svn/athena r22913
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Apr 25 09:07:16 2008
Cc: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:06:23 -0400
I would also be in favor of this, if we can find a reasonable way to
deal with .environment. (Perhaps via an external script that we
encourage people to run, and notify them via a dialog box). Given
that the number of bash users is probably small in comparison to tcsh
users, we could probably also send e-mail.
-Jon
On Apr 25, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 02:46 -0400, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
>> I'm increasingly convinced that the best way to solve a lot of these
>> problems might be to keep the tcsh dotfiles almost completely
>> unchanged,
>> but fix the bash dotfiles to work how we want dotfiles to work in the
>> future.
>
> That's reasonable, yes.
>
>
