Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

[Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org>]

Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Once upon a time Paul Gear said...
> 
>>P.S.  I can't believe Debian doesn't have /etc/profile.d.  :-)  Time to
>>submit the above as a patch?
> 
> 
> Section 9.9 of the Debian policy has this to say about environment
> variables:
> ...
>      A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable
>      defaults.

If you want to make bash settings consistent across users,
/etc/profile.d is a very appropriate mechanism, regardless of whether
the program has a wrapper script or not.

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Paul
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