Re: Package updates
- To: debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Package updates
- From: Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de>
- Date: 30 Jan 2003 10:10:59 +0100
- Message-id: <87smvb57fg.fsf@rudi.niederhof>
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Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk> writes:
> Ah, but shouldn't it read /etc/environment?
>
> /etc/profile says:
>
> # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
> # and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).
>
> And then it goes on defining how the prompt should look like.
Well, /etc/environment is also used indirectly by gdm (via pam_env.so)
to select the locale when a user starts a session. So I don't see
what's wrong in doing the same for the greeter interface.
Johannes
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