Re: READMEs files for ports

Le 2022-05-02 13:14, Solène Rapenne a écrit :
> Le Mon, 2 May 2022 14:08:23 +0300,
> Mihai Popescu <mihscu@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> For gnome readme, there is this sequence:
>>
>> # cat <<'EOF' >>/etc/login.conf
>>
>> gnome:\
>> :datasize-cur=1024M:\
>> :tc=default:
>>
>> EOF
>>
>> It is a verbatim copy of what is displayed on the screen, Still I was
>> not able to figure out what key to press or how to type to accomplish
>> this :). I gave up and edited the file directly.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> just for posterity the following text is a shell code
>
> cat <<'EOF' >>/etc/login.conf
>
> gnome:\
> :datasize-cur=1024M:\
> :tc=default:
>
> EOF
>
>
> this tells cat to take input until it sees EOF and add the text to
> /etc/login.conf file. Then we feed it the text we want to append, and
> we tell it we finished by typing EOF. This is a command to type from a
> shell.
>
> However, if it's not clear, maybe we should reword that part to tell
> "add theses lines to /etc/login.conf" or something like that.
Hi,

Isn't it a case where it should go in /etc/login.conf.d/gnome now?

I am genuinely asking, not proposing a change.

Thanks.