Re: Another possible slink goal (multipackages users profile)
Hi,
>>"Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:
Enrique> What about LANG=foo ? I would like to choose the preferred
Enrique> language for my system at install time, and have every shell
Enrique> inherit that setting. With the current scheme, I have to
Enrique> modify a file for each shell installed, and manually
Enrique> synchronize them with the Debian version every time the
Enrique> shell maintainer modifies that file and I upgrade the
Enrique> package. With the /etc/profile.d proposal I only have to
Enrique> put that variable in single file, and don't worry about
Enrique> upgrades.
Well, there should be a mechanism provided, and it should be
as empty as possible. In this case, what if I have a multiuser
multilingual system, and Debian insists on providing one uniform
language?
Therefore packages should not put in env variables into my
shell without my consent.
manoj
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