Karl Eichwalder writes ("/etc/profile"):
> Perhaps some programs might add useful things to /etc/profile;
> after installing less I would like to see
>
> PAGER=less
> export PAGER
Be careful. If you have packages' scripts edit conffiles (which is
what /etc/profile is) the user will get conffiles resolution prompts
that they probably don't understand, because they won't have edited
the file themselves.
> I have not installed Debian's TeX; do you put TeX's PATH in
> /etc/profile?
TeX belongs in /usr/bin.
Ian.
