Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> [2002-09-22 00:16:20 +0200]: > I need some explanation about /etc/environment. Here is what I have > found out: > > - Seems to originate from the AIX world. Yes. It is AIX specific. Does _any_ OS other than AIX implement support for /etc/environment? Support in Linux seems to have been sporadic code snippets imported from AIX which eventually whither and die due to lack of sunlight. > What is the canonical way of handling /etc/environment? I don't want > to simply source the file in my init.d script to fix bug #158981, > since I now know this is wrong. Is /etc/environment documented as a required behavior for Debian? Is Debian going to make a Debian Policy change with support for /etc/environment? I could find no mention of it in there, please correct me. And without that I would not expect any support for /etc/environment by random packages since how would they know? I know of no other system except AIX that uses that file. Bob
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