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Re: default language setting on a fresh system [was: Re: base-config cruft cleanup]



On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:40:39AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
> Marcin Owsiany schrieb:
> > The problem is that for bash by default,
> > 
> >  login shells source _only_			.bash_profile, and
> >  interactive _non-login_ shells source _only_	.bashrc
> > 
> > I suggest that we write the language used for installation to
> > /etc/default/language and work with shell, display manager etc.
> > /package maintainers, so that these programs will source this file
> > in user rc files (if applicable).
> 
> Something like ~/.environment would probably make more sense,

Right. Good idea. Now we need to think of a name that isn't
already used by some shell.

Marcin
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