still in jaunty

Note: OpenBSD does not consider missing man pages on configuration files
to be minor, which is why I continue to enjoy sysadmin under OpenBSD
more so than Ubuntu.

This is a sysadmin papercut: a minor defect that could be easily fixed
which griefs nearly everyone who has to figure out a permanent place to
put JAVA_HOME from what I can tell reading the forums.

>From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables

/etc/environment - This file is specifically meant for system-wide
environment variable settings. It is not a script file, but rather
consists of assignment expressions, one per line. Specifically, this
file stores the system-wide locale and path settings.

Does not explain when this file is read, as per the original bug report.
And another thing.  My preferred shell is zsh, not bash.  It would be
nice if some of the docs were less bash specific.

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/etc/environment lacks man page.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574
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