Re: Package organization issue...

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Nicolás Lichtmaier writes:

> > Um, having packages modify /etc/profile is an extremely bad idea.
> > There's simply too many things that can go wrong. Even just
> > the security considerations (root uses /etc/profile too!) are
> > considerable. Besides, it doesn't help people not using a Bourne
> > shell derivative.
> 
>  Crazy? idea:
> 
>  Having a directory /etc/defaults where packages can put scripts to set
> environment variables... and /etc/profile would call run-parts on this
> directory (Of course it would need to be something like eval `run-parts
> ...`, and the scripts would print the commands).

What about /etc/profile.d/ which contains various scripts.  If
whois != root then all of them are sourced.

Regards

	Joey

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