Otto Wyss wrote: > > I'd still think it was a bad idea, though. In general, the reason we > > need .d directories is so that packages can install separate files in > > them. Since packages aren't allowed to depend on environment variables, > > that just leaves the administrator, who can equally well use > > /etc/environment. > > I'm puzzled?! I can understand that debian packages may not depend on > env variables during installaion/removement but packages may install env > variables which might be used later during normal work (i.e. > compilation). Could someone clear this? Any program in a package must function well without any environment variables set. Therefore there is no need to "install" environment variables. See policy 9.9. -- see shy jo
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