Re: fluxbox partial installation
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”)
>
> The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user
> accounts by adduser. No other program should reference the files in
> /etc/skel.
>
> Therefore, if a program needs a dotfile to exist in advance in $HOME
> to work sensibly, that dotfile should be installed in /etc/skel and
> treated as a configuration file.
Even if a package did this, it wouldn't cause that file to be
propagated into *existing* user home directories. It would only
show up for newly created users.
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