Rejected: Bug#122817: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile
This proposal asks for an /etc/profile.d, the contents of which would be
sourced by every shell and which could be used to set environment
variables for all users.
This is contrary to the intent of Policy 9.9, which explicitly prohibits
programs from depending on environment variables to get reasonable
defaults. No consensus for changing that provision was reached in the
discussion of this proposal. This proposal is also problematic due to the
variety of shells in Debian, as discussed further in the bug.
I am rejecting this proposal.
If you disagree with the rejection of this proposal for reasons that
weren't raised in the prior bug discussion, please raise them in this bug.
If you disagree with the rejection of this proposal for reasons already
raised in the bug, the path of appeal for a Policy proposal rejection is
to the tech-ctte. See http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte for how to
make an appeal to the tech-ctte.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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