user [email protected] usertag 545756 + debian-edu block 370348 by 545756 thanks
The current base-files maintainer believe /etc/profile.d/ is a bad idea. The topic is handled in /usr/share/doc/base-files/FAQ, which starts: Q. Why does Debian not have a "profile.d" directory, like other distributions? A. Because no Debian package needs it. Debian policy says: "A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable defaults". This policy has been very successful so far. If the default install had a profile.d, people might think it's ok to use it for a Debian package, when in fact policy does not support such thing. I guess we should make him aware that the debian-edu-config package would like to use /etc/profile.d/. :) The /etc/profile.d/ LSB feature is mentioned in http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/etc.html . Or perhaps we should get the umask setting dropped from /etc/profile, and use some pam module to control the global umask setting? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
