On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:41 AM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
<dkaspar@redhat.com> wrote:
> My question was more meant in a sense "are those files still necessary"? :)
> I expect they were created to deal with some problems with locale setting,
> but from just looking into them it's hard for me to guess what the initial
> purpose of them were... :)

That is used to set up the user specific locale settings. is there any
alternatives to take care of them instead of
/etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} ?

​No that I'm aware of​
 
, unfortunately.

I still get the feeling like we are not totally sure these scripts are still needed nowadays. Do you think it would be too much dangerous to test if we need still those files in Fedora via the System-wide Change? (I.e. do the change in rawhide, see if it breaks something. fallback if necessary.) It could at least tell us the current state of things, and maybe create a plan on how to fix things, so they could be eventually removed at some point.

In any case I would like to find a new home for these scripts, so they don't "block" other work on initscripts package. And if it would turned out we can't remove those scripts yet, at least to do some cleanup in those scripts if possible.