On Monday 8 November 1999, at 17 h 26, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You say there's no way in Unix to set a system-wide env variable.Still, > since this is about Debian, wouldn't it be possible to mandate in the > policy that each shell would source a common file that sets up env > variables consistently ? It means several files to maintain, at least one for bash/zsh, one for tcsh and its friends and one for purely-Posix shells like ash. And these files are not always sourced, for instance when you run a command from a window manager menu...
