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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, sabrina downard wrote:
> i hate logging on to a new system and having to adjust my .profile and=20
> .exrc to override all the whiz-bang shiny defaults that all the clever=20
> fifteen year-olds think are required. setting a path? reasonable.=20
> setting up color defaults for everything from ls to vim to my damned=20
> command-line prompt? knock it off!
Could be worse.
Imagine working for a place where the default .profile specified
alias ls=3D"ls --color=3Dauto"
Or something to that effect.
Now imagine being the support monkey that has to help all the new people=20
figure out why
$ ls -la
doesn't work the way one would expect it to.=20
Hijacking the expected behavior of shell commands is the / of all evil.
(Being told "hey, it works on Debian" did little to quell the=20
frustration for all the non-Debian users, and really, so, great, that's=20
*one* thing that worked on Debian, compared to dozens of well-known &=20
commented-upon glitches that didn't work. Is it really worth it? No.)
Not that I'm bitter or anything... :-)
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Chris Devers
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