Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

[Jeremy Brown <jeremy@brownjava.org>]

Jeremy Brown wrote:

> I respect the established Debian policy...but I do disagree.  I think 
> it is possible to build an environment-variable-setting system that 
> works with multiple shells, like the one currently in Slackware.

OK, I eat my words.  After about 5 hours of thinking about this off and 
on, I guess there are plenty of situations where an executable might be 
fired off by something other than a login shell or the distant child of 
a login shell.  The way that RedHat and Slackware do this is definitely 
not very robust.

Having said that...

Is there any place I can add systemwide environment variables that all 
applications will honor?  I heard mention of "/etc/environment"...is 
there anything like "/etc/environment.d"?

I really still think there is a good argument for modularizing some 
system-wide environment variables, like CLASSPATH.  As Java system 
libraries are added via apt, you would want CLASSPATH to be updated.

--j