Re: status of /etc/environment?
Well.... does this perhaps deserve it's own manpage? At least if it's
not deprecated?
I barely found any real documentation about it (how it's intended to be
used and so).
It seems to be
Some init-scripts on my system merely use it as a location for the local
settings, e.g. console-screen.sh, keymap.sh and pcscd, overriden
by /etc/defaults/locale:
[ -r /etc/environment ] && ENV_FILE="/etc/environment"
[ -r /etc/default/locale ] && ENV_FILE="/etc/default/locale"
#then sourcing it somehow
One of Debian's derivates has some nice specification:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables#System-wide%
20environment%20variables
Cheers,
Chris.
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