Sbopkg provides seamless package repository integration for Slackware
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 71.166.233.112]
on October 02, 2008 03:55 PM
Since several other common utilities (for example: crontab, svn) also check $EDITOR or $VISUAL setting it to 'vim' (instead of vi which is symlinked to elvis by default) is my first order of business on any Slackware install.
Also, changing the ~/.bashrc file is not a system-wide change since it only affects one user. Making the change in /etc/profile would be a system-wide change (which would still be overridden by ~/.bashrc). You could also change the editor on a per-application basis by calling it like this:
# EDITOR="emacs" sbopkg
I completely agree with the choice to use $EDITOR instead of sbopkg.conf. Since most Slackware users would already have set their preference for text editor in their ~/.bashrc why ask them to set it again in a different location? That would be redundant and counter-intuitive to the target audience.
Also, with regard to security updates: I use slackpkg to keep up-to-date with official patches and manually update the 3rd-party packages I use I lurk several security sites almost daily so I'd like to think I'm reasonably aware of potential security threats.
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Sbopkg provides seamless package repository integration for Slackware
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.166.233.112] on October 02, 2008 03:55 PMAlso, changing the ~/.bashrc file is not a system-wide change since it only affects one user. Making the change in /etc/profile would be a system-wide change (which would still be overridden by ~/.bashrc). You could also change the editor on a per-application basis by calling it like this:
# EDITOR="emacs" sbopkg
I completely agree with the choice to use $EDITOR instead of sbopkg.conf. Since most Slackware users would already have set their preference for text editor in their ~/.bashrc why ask them to set it again in a different location? That would be redundant and counter-intuitive to the target audience.
Also, with regard to security updates: I use slackpkg to keep up-to-date with official patches and manually update the 3rd-party packages I use I lurk several security sites almost daily so I'd like to think I'm reasonably aware of potential security threats.
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