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Bug#258789: locales should be set up in init scripts instead of /etc/environment



At Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:58:46 +0200,
Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.2.5-11.5
> 
> The locales should be set up in init scripts instead of 
> /etc/environment. Then the locale would be active for every user, not 
> just for users logging in. This is especially useful for CGI or PHP 
> scripts that would otherwise not use the locale.

I fail to grasp that your request is considered about the current
handling of environment variable.  /etc/environment is a list of
environment variable.  It used by pam_env.
Then, which init scripts do you suggest?  Can that script handles LANG
setting easily rathar than the current scheme?

Regards,
-- gotom




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