On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

On 30/09/11 00:00, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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Towards read only /etc: * /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is now a static file, rather than being generated on every boot (this means we need to use -f when updating) Please do not encourage using -f when updating   (people will use "pacman -Syuf", which is evil...).   Instead, "mv /etc/profile.d/locale.sh{,.bak}" and then update.

I presume the new local.sh will be generated in exactly the same way, and hence there's no real need for *.bak?