[17522] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.3.25Mon: IS Linux Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Thu Feb 10 15:19:17 2000
Message-Id: <200002102019.PAA16098@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:19:12 -0500
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
System name: alice-whacker.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.3.25Mon
Display type:
Shell: /afs/sipb/project/bash/bash (/bin/athena/bash?)
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
What's wrong:
It appears that many packages that replicate functionality
commonly found in lockers gets installed automatically.
This is a bad thing because it is unreasonable to assume that
workstation maintainers will deal appropriately with athena-
specific issues.
Particular problems I have encountered include:
* "/usr/bin/lynx" is installed, which does not respect
$HOME/.lynx/.lynxrc and presumably lacks certificate support.
* "/bin/vi" is really vim in a halfhearted compatibility
mode. In my biased opinion, a more vi-like vi should come
up when vi is typed. nvi (/usr/bin/vi on *BSD) would be my
clone of choice.
* Terminal badness. The lynx in infoagents looks at
/usr/lib/terminfo for terminal descriptions. /usr/lib/terminfo
does not exist.
* /etc/inputrc breaks vi-mode in any readline-using program,
including /bin/bash, /bin/athena/bash, and
/afs/sipb/project/bash/bash. It should (IMHO) be deleted
outright.
What should have happened:
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
