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Re: Is there / should there be a default locale setting on Debian systems ?



On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:46:47PM +0100, Sebastian Leske wrote:
> 2) There is no place to put a systemwide environment var setting that should 
>    be available to *all* applications
> If you put a setting into /etc/profile , it will only be read by login shells 
> starting up, not e.g. by X programs. For those, it needs to be put into 
> /etc/X11/Xsession.
A long time ago I've patched xdm (locally) to read /etc/environment.
I think that I even mailed the patch to debian-devel/devel-policy but
it was never set into the policy.

David


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