Once upon a time Paul Gear said...
>
> P.S. I can't believe Debian doesn't have /etc/profile.d. :-) Time to
> submit the above as a patch?
Section 9.9 of the Debian policy has this to say about environment
variables:
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9.9. Environment variables
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A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable
defaults. (That's because these environment variables would have to
be set in a system-wide configuration file like `/etc/profile', which
is not supported by all shells.)
If a program usually depends on environment variables for its
configuration, the program should be changed to fall back to a
reasonable default configuration if these environment variables are
not present. If this cannot be done easily (e.g., if the source code
of a non-free program is not available), the program must be replaced
by a small "wrapper" shell script which sets the environment variables
if they are not already defined, and calls the original program.
Here is an example of a wrapper script for this purpose:
#!/bin/sh
BAR=${BAR:-/var/lib/fubar}
export BAR
exec /usr/lib/foo/foo "$@"
Furthermore, as `/etc/profile' is a configuration file of the
`base-files' package, other packages must not put any environment
variables or other commands into that file.
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