> > Note that I'm not sure setting things in /etc/environment (or /etc/profile, > > which is a worse idea) really works the way it should. does it override the > > users' preferences saved in their dotfiles? That would be wrong. > > Oh yes -- thank goodness policy forbids such nastiness -- other linux > distributions have a million settings in /etc/profile, and it is not a > thrilling situation -- logins take quite a bit longer under those distros, > and it just feels messy.
But this is obviously another thing. It's not a needed thing. It's a local setting that a user might want to set for himself, or an administrator for everybody, of course. Just like the LANG variable.
