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Re: Which package creates /etc/environment?



On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:12:57PM +0000, Robert Harris wrote:
> Phil Edwards wrote:
> >Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it.
> >
> >And more to the point, what's looking at that file?  It isn't my login 
> >shell,
> >it isn't any of the setup files that it looks at (.bashrc and so forth).
> >But the variables in that file are getting set somehow, and I'd like to
> >know how, and what's going to someday break if it gets removed.
> >
> Comparing the date of my /etc/environment with the dates in my 
> /usr/share/doc directory, it looks to me as if the culprit is
> libbonobo2-common. But my /etc/environment is empty!

The plot thickens.  I don't have libbonobo2-common installed.  :-)


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Behind everything some further thing is found, forever; thus the tree behind
the bird, stone beneath soil, the sun behind Urth.  Behind our efforts, let
there be found our efforts.
              - Ascian saying, as related by Loyal to the Group of Seventeen



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