On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:46:56 -0500 "Daniel Richard G." <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 7.1 > > The current /etc/profile sources /etc/bash.bashrc, and then > /etc/profile.d/*.sh, among other start-up tasks. This is > counterproductive, because it makes the profile.d mechanism useless for > initializations that need to precede the system bashrc. > > /etc/bash.bashrc should be sourced at the end of /etc/profile, after all > the other profile stuff has been done. This is what I would intuitively > expect, because non-login shells likewise read the bashrc "after" the > profile---they inherit the profile's environment initializations from > the initial login shell, which can be considered to have come "first."
This is an extremely bad idea, because it results in any site-specific command prompt customization that has been put in /etc/profile.d scripts being systematically squashed by the upstream defaults, which goes against the whole point of LSB section 16.2. Martin-Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/debian-bugs-dist
