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Subject: Re: User shell: state or config?
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:51:03 +0200
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Hello,

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
>
>>> All in all, I=E2=80=99m in favor of switching back to the previous beha=
vior:
>>> considering user shells as system config.  That=E2=80=99s a one-line ch=
ange
>>> in
>>> (gnu build accounts).
>>
>> +1!
>
> +1 from me as well.

Done in 504a0fc636ec591e65b4a229a37e522e425d8a0c.

> Allowing the shell to be declaratively defined in the system config,
> but also allowing a user to override it permanently at runtime via
> chsh, seems like a nice middle ground between treating it as "config"
> vs. "state".

In this particular case there=E2=80=99s no middle ground though: either you
consider state and then you have the problems I listed, or you consider
it config.  I did think there was a middle ground, until I realized the
implications.

Thanks everyone for your feedback!

Ludo=E2=80=99.