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John Morrison john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com
Sun Jul 28 09:16:00 GMT 2002


Hi Gerrit :)

> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gp@familiehaase.de]
> Hallo John,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 28. Juli 2002 um 17:13 schriebst du:
> 
> > I also don't know how to indicate to the user that this package has
> > changed.  Should it copy the current profile to, for example,
> > profile-old-`date`?  Should it do anything at all?
> 
> If the current /etc/profile is removed then there should be a backup.
> Anyway there should be a short note that there was a change which
> needs investigation.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> # see: http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html#Bash
> > <snip/>
> 
> > again, this should be part of the bash package.
> 
> You are the maintainer...

If .inputrc is used by more than one shell, I'll be happy to
add/maintain it.  For that matter, if the bash maintainer doesn't
believe [s]he should...

J.

(PS, I'm subscribed ;)



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