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From: | L A Walsh |
Subject: | bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior |
Date: | Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:36:21 -0800 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird |
The below methods cannot alter or fix the problems that require a configuration file.Example: have 'rm -fr .' do a depth first removal and not pre-inspect any argument before its children.
Whether or not to expand tabs in output so that output toa terminal that doesn't have tabstops every 8 characters will line up.
I could go on, but those cannot be handled with a simple alias.
The common and recommended way to add default command-line arguments is to use aliases (e.g. "alias rm='rm -i'"). If used in $HOME/.profile - it will affect your interactive use. If used in /etc/profile (or similar) - it will affect all users in your system. That method already works in almost every Unix system - without adding additional code and complexities of a global configuration file.
Given the above, I'm closing this as "wontfix". Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.
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