But there is stuff in the .bash_profile shipped by older versions of Ubuntu that never gets run. So certain functionality stopped working on upgrade, which seems like a regression to me.
For example, my desktop which now runs feisty, but was upgraded from older versions of Ubuntu has the following at the top of the ~/.bash_profile: # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples. # the files are located in the bash-doc package. This file used to be run on login, then at some point stopped being run (Edgy I believe, but I could be wrong) My laptop has a clean install of Feisty and the ~/.profile includes ~/.bash_profile if it exists, however the upgraded box never got a ~/.profile to do that include, meaning that the old .bash_profile no longer runs. The point being that whether it's a portable assumption or not, it's an assumption that Ubuntu used to make and then dropped, causing people's ~/bin to stop being included in the path, which seems to me to be a regression. -- .bash_profile is not sources when X session starts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66004 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
