On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:59 pm, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I recently switched back from Debian to gentoo, after realizing that my > good old debian unstable was actually way less pain to maintain than my > super-bleeding-edge gentoo ;-) > > However, I noticed some well-done framework on gentoo for which I > couldn't find a debian-equivalent : the env-update (/etc/env.d/*) > executable. > > In fact, some packages usually need to place some environment variables > that should be set for all users. For example, the JAVA_HOME env. comes > to my mind, or the fact that the administrator may want every user to > automatically have $JAVA_HOME/bin in their $PATH. > (some applications are broken if JAVA_HOME is not set) See Policy section 9.9. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> -------------------\ | DROP THE SCYTHE AND TURN AROUND SLOWLY. | | -- Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" | \---------------------- A duck! -- http://www.python.org ---------------------/
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