Re: Another possible slink goal (multipackages users profile)

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> wrote:
> What about LANG=foo ? I would like to choose the preferred language for my
> system at install time, and have every shell inherit that setting. With
> the current scheme, I have to modify a file for each shell installed, and
> manually synchronize them with the Debian version every time the shell
> maintainer modifies that file and I upgrade the package.  With the
> /etc/profile.d proposal I only have to put that variable in single file,
> and don't worry about upgrades.

Frankly, I think this kind of thing (default internationalization
settings) should be set in init, not at login.  Unfortunately, I
don't think there's anything you can put in /etc/inittab to specify
environmental variable settings.

-- 
Raul


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