TL/DR: On Trixie with Gnome, right after login with… - default .profile -> ~/bin and ~/.local/bin in PATH - .profile as a symlink to the default .profile located in different directory -> no ~/bin or ~/.local/bin in PATH
Why? Hi, I am running Trixie with Gnome and I am trying to manage my config and dot files with GNU stow. So I have Setup/ repo (my stow directory) with a shell/ package directory which contains my .bashrc and my .profile files. The .profile is the same as in /etc/skel (default one). When I stow the shell package in my $HOME, it creates a symlink ~/.profile pointing to $HOME/Setup/shell/.profile. The issue is that when I logout and log back in, my PATH does not contain $HOME/bin and $HOME/.local/bin as it should. It is as if the symlinked .profile wasn’t sourced. default .profile file in ~ ~/bin and ~/.local/bin in PATH. .profile as a symlink to origin Question: is it by design? Eg only source a regular file .profile at login (not symlink) Thanks B
