Re: /etc/profile.d

[Darren Benham <gecko@benham.net>]

In linux.debian.devel, you wrote:
>I noticed an /etc/profile.d directory in RH distribution.
>
>I think it is good idea. Some packages require to set correct environment
>variables, etc.
>
>i.e qt1 requires QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt1g variable. It could be set by
>/etc/profile.d/qt1g.sh conffile.
>
>Another example - a choise of default language in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh file.
>
>It is very simple to implement this feature in /etc/profile:
>
>for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
>    . $i
>done  
>
>Of course, Debian Policy tells 
>
>"No program may 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.)"
>
>but I think this directory could be useful in some cases.
>
Figure out how to do it with the rest of the shells...