Comment # 14 on bug 1173321 from Ludwig Nussel

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #7)
> (In reply to Ludwig Nussel from comment #4)
> > or rather drop them without replacement. They are just cluttering new users
> > homes.
> 
> Why do we drop all possible user based configurations?  This is how users
> can do this and without such templates the skeleton feature of useradd
> becomes rather useless.

Maybe I was misleading. Of course useradd needs to support /usr/etc/skel and
/etc/skel. The point for aaa_base is that the files we ship there so far have
very little value. Ie the inputrc is just comments and the code in the emacs
file should be in the global emacs config if it's useful. That way even
existing users would benefit from that code and we can even fix/extend it in
the future. There's no need to copy templates/boiler plates into user homes.