On 9/28/05, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually gdm should be bugged, and already is see #265101. As far as I'm > > concerned, it should source /etc/environment (that's where the installation > > system will drop the default system locale for logins) but the maintainer is > > against it (see #265101 or a previous, closed, bug #133578 or, even, > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2004/debian-glibc-200401/msg00278.html). > And this actually is a real big Pain in the ass, I have to say. > > Maybe the maintainer of gdm has arguments against a default setting in > /etc/environment, which I respect, but this is currently the bloody > way we use for all other bloody software and gdm is the only piece of > crap that doesn't follow this, dammit.:-)
OK, I've read the bug report indicated by Javier, and I reached to this conclusion: 1) either we set a debian policy for the default environment for the daemons 2) or we find a standard for a daemon default environment and set a policy that all daemons should source that environment. Either way, there should be a bug aginst "debian-policy". Is there an interest in this issue at the momement? > > PS: The bottom line is that we need consensus on how the language should be > > set system-wide, some are against using /etc/environment as they say it's > > PAM > > specific but other distributions (like Red Hat) use a global configuration > > file for all the localisation in the system, including initscripts. proposal: /etc/default/environment > Up to now, it seems that the unwritten consensus is using > /etc/environment. First of all, because this is what do the locales > and belocs-locales packages when keeping information of a default > locale. In a way, I thank the gdm maintainer for his position, as this helps in pointing out there is a problem. -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
