Re: Rejected: Bug#122817: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2008-06-09 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On 2008-06-09, Russ Allbery wrote: > "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 2008-06-06, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> This proposal asks for an /etc/profile.d, the contents of which would > >> be sourced by every shell and which could be used to set environment > >> variables fo

Re: Rejected: Bug#122817: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008-06-06, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This proposal asks for an /etc/profile.d, the contents of which would >> be sourced by every shell and which could be used to set environment >> variables for all users. > s/every shell/every bourne-t

Re: Rejected: Bug#122817: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2008-06-09 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On 2008-06-06, Russ Allbery wrote: > This proposal asks for an /etc/profile.d, the contents of which would be > sourced by every shell and which could be used to set environment > variables for all users. s/every shell/every bourne-type shell/ (and zsh when invoked in compatibility mode, but then

Rejected: Bug#122817: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2008-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
This proposal asks for an /etc/profile.d, the contents of which would be sourced by every shell and which could be used to set environment variables for all users. This is contrary to the intent of Policy 9.9, which explicitly prohibits programs from depending on environment variables to get reaso