Re: Where to put non-locale global environment settitngs ?

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Charles Plessy writes ("Where to put non-locale global environment settitngs ?"):
> Users are now told to use /etc/defaults/locale instead of
> /etc/environment for setting system-wide default language. But what
> about the non-locale environment variables that users also put in
> /etc/environment, such as http_proxy for instance? Are they also
> unwelcome because /etc/environment "is a PAM configuration file"?

Configuration files are there for users to edit.

Ian.