[17523] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.25Mon: IS Linux Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Feb 10 16:10:04 2000
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To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:19:12 EST."
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:09:59 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> It appears that many packages that replicate functionality commonly
> found in lockers gets installed automatically.
Yeah, we're planning to take care of that soon.
> * "/bin/vi" is really vim in a halfhearted compatibility
> mode.
I suspect we're unlikely to change that; it falls under the category
of "too much mucking with the base OS."
> * Terminal badness. The lynx in infoagents looks at
> /usr/lib/terminfo for terminal descriptions. /usr/lib/terminfo
> does not exist.
Todd, you listening? lynx needs to be recompiled. (We don't want to
create the /usr/lib/terminfo symlink on cluster machines because we
want locker software to work with layered machines as well as cluster
machines.)
> * /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.
Well, that's kind of annoying. Perhaps we can get a fix from Red Hat
on this count, rather than adding a local hack.
