Re: i

[Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>]

The chris-cust package was a kind of trial balloon for some things that
I wanted changed/added. Some have made in some form  (root-prompt,
checkmirr) others did not. I have done similar things in the unstable
phase of earlier releases and removed packages shortly before a stable
release.

The problem with alias l=ls is that each user needs to put it into his
profile manually. With my 1200 users I really do not want to instruct them
separately on how to do it. And wanting full listing is rather common. I
think the "l" script should be provided as a standard or a standard alias
(as well as a standard user prompt which included current dir and current
host) should be in /etc/profile.

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 09:48:30AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > I have asked awhile ago via a bug report against ftp.debian.org that the
> > chris-cust package be removed. The homesite for chris-cust has since been 
> > the Fuller Archives at debs.fuller.edu. 
> 
> Hello Christoph!
> 
> I find this senseful. Everyone is invited to use such a package fi it is
> useful for him, and I'm happy that you seem to agree that the main
> distribution is not the right place.
> 
> However, the discussion about such packages resp. naming conventions is
> apparently necessary. As I saw this message too late, I have referred to
> this obsolete package in my other mails, I hope you don't find this
> offensive or take this personal.
> 
> > The l function is quite common on other unixes. 
> 
> I don't know what this script does, but isn't "alias l=ls" a cleaner (and
> faster) solution?
> 
> Bye,
> Marcus
> 
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