On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Eitan Adler <lists_at_eitanadler.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog <astrodog_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> Personally, I pay very little attention to the prompt. That being said... >> Plenty of people prefer widely different configurations for the prompt. >> I think everyone agrees that the default prompt isn't particularly >> informative, however, achieving consensus here is going to be almost >> impossible. I suggest that it be handled as a seperate discussion, >> perhaps? > > That would result in even more of a bikeshed than this thread. I'm > pretty sure I'm going to go with one of the prompts posted to this > thread after a bit of experimentation. > Remember that the prompts are for inexperienced users and those of you > with awesome prompts are not the target audience for the change. I'm not actually against any of the prompts that have been suggested. They're all fine with me. I use too many shared machines, or use machines temporarly to expect anything at all from the prompt anyway. > >> I am against this change, barring a more compelling reason to include >> it. Default behavior limits $PATH to areas that are only writable as >> root, and there is no garuntee that $HOME can only be written by the >> user. As a result, the change may create unanticipated and unnoticed >> security consequences some installations. I believe this outweighs the >> functionality provided by the proposed change, given how trivial this >> is to configure after the fact. > > set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin > /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin) > > is the default > Whoops. I should have known a couple of years ago that adding a handful of random patches to my build machine wasn't a great idea.Received on Tue Feb 14 2012 - 12:34:23 UTC
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