Bug 278668

Summary:	app-shells/bash: /etc/bash/bashrc.d request?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hongjiu Zhang <voidprayer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hongjiu Zhang 2009-07-22 11:40:20 UTC

Currently, if I want to emerge app-shells/bash-completion, I should  add . /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh in /etc/bash/bashrc in order to get global application. Will it be possible to add a /etc/bash/bashrc.d as hooks. Then app-shells/* can take advantage to apply themselves to non-login shells.

something add to /etc/bash/bashrc like:
for x in /etc/bash/bashrc.d/*
do
  . $x
done

(i know it is badly coded since i learn little about bash...)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-07-26 17:24:21 UTC

packages should never automatically install things into /etc/profile.d/, and the same logic applies to /etc/bash/bashrc.d/.  installation of a package is not an automatic opt-in.

Comment 2 Hongjiu Zhang 2009-07-30 10:50:07 UTC

Well, in fact, bash-completion and java-config does. They have file in /etc/profile.d. Do you mean these are either workarounds or deprecated?

Thank you for your reply.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-08-14 07:38:24 UTC

what i meant was installing and automatically enabling.  bash-completion does not.  it installs a hook script, but it doesnt enable things unless the user has enabled it.

change your console to start a login shell and it'll go through the normal /etc/profile* setup