Thanks for your comments, Martin! On 2013-12-19 11:22, Martin Pitt wrote: > Gunnar Hjalmarsson [2013-12-13 5:59 +0100]: >> As regards ~/.pam_environment and /etc/default/locale, they are >> written to automatically when people set their languages and locales >> via the GUIs, so there is a risk that manual entries are accidentally >> overwritten. > > That would be a bug in accounts-service & friends though. The PAM ones > have a rather simple line format, so it isn't hard to change existing > ones, and the code goes through some effort to not overwrite user > settings and keep the format nice.
What I meant was that if a user for instance sets LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 manually in ~/.pam_environment, and at a later time changes the regional formats setting via Language Support, the manual entry will be replaced. That may or may not be what he/she wants. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
