On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 30/09/11 00:00, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> 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?