RE: an easier bash

[Donovan Rebbechi <elflord@pegasus.rutgers.edu>]

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Sharp, Lee wrote:

>    A very nice idea.  However, we should make sure this is an OPTIONAL
> feature.  

the best way of doing this is making it a package that can be installed /
uninstalled.

> there.  We may even want to make it an optional shell, as opposed to a
> patch, so that different user accounts can choose or not to use it.

Doing this on a per-user basis is a little trickier.

Another approach to the one you mention would be to use an
environment variable to determine whether or not these aliases/functions
should be used.  ( only use the aliases if the variable is set ... ) 
This is relatively easy if the user installs our
distribution cleanly ( so that we can give them their startup files via
/etc/skel ) but possibly a little trickier otherwise.