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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am guessing here we are trying to set env variables for all users so a
~/.profile might not be the solution.

How come that this issue has not come up before? Are we so few people using
Debian??




On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:59:48PM +0100, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> > Hello,
> > after some reading it looks like Debian does not support the execution of
> > scripts saved in /etc/profile.d/
>
> Uhmm... that's strange... while surely not POSIX (which only mandates
> /etc/profile), the LSB core explicitly requires it, in the sh
> description:
>
>     Note: This specification requires that the sh utility shall also
>     read and execute commands in its current execution environment from
>     all the shell scripts in the directory /etc/profile.d. Such scripts
>     are read and executed as a part of reading and executing
>     /etc/profile.
>
> I personally find debatable to mandate such behaviour (after all
> everyone can put whatever he want in its /etc/profile), there is a clear
> standard recommendation for it. Usually Debian is compliant... OTOH LSB
> also mandate to be RPM based, so maybe there are exceptions:
> just read the lsb package readme, it says:
>
>     Debian policy forbids the use of /etc/profile.d by Debian packages,
>     so it is unlikely this will change (as it might be seen as
>     encouragement for Debian developers to do use it.)
>
> The 'official' solution is described in the debian policy 9.9:
>
>     If a program usually depends on environment variables for its
>     configuration, the program should be changed to fall back to
>     a reasonable default configuration if these environment variables
>     are not present. If this cannot be done easily (e.g., if the source
>     code of a non-free program is not available), the program must be
>     replaced by a small "wrapper" shell script which sets the
>     environment variables if they are not already defined, and calls the
>     original program.
>
> Probably slackware has the same issue :P
>
> *if* environment variables are really needed I personally like the
> approach used by ISE (a script to be sourced manually, eventually to be
> integrated in the user .profile)
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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