It would be nice of /etc/profile executed all scripts in a /etc/profile.d directory. I do not mean building /etc/profile as /etc/profile.env is built, I really mean for i in /etc/profile.d/*; do source $i done to appropriate /etc/profile files.
Like /etc/env.d ?
Similar to /etc/env.d. However, /etc/env.d is parsed by a python script specific to gentoo. This python script does peculiar things, and also requires that env-update be run. I want to be able to do things like 'eval `dircolors -b`' or 'eval `dircolors -c`' and up global aliases, etc in an appropriate fashion without having to read through python code. It is not clear that this kind of thing will pass through the python script, and will it pass through future releases. Hence my explicit request for this to be managed as a shell script modification to /etc/profile (or /etc/profile.{csh,bash}) (see SuSE, Slackware, etc). Putting dircolors into env.d would not be cross-shell portable. env.d seems to be intended to be portable between csh and bash. Putting the output of dircolors into the file would not be automatically updated when /etc/DIR_COLORS is changed, so updating this requires N tasks (edit DIR_COLORS, rerun and insert into env.d, rerun env-update) rather than one (edit DIR_COLORS) as is traditional. The eventual objective is similar to /etc/env.d, except that one is guaranteed that the file will be parsed by shell and nothing else (the shell parser is a known quantity) and that one does not need to run env-update.
why cant you just edit /etc/profile ?
I can edit /etc/profile but I propose this for exactly the same reasons that env.d exists: namely it's nice to maintain things in isolation from one another, so that customisations don't get trashed when things like profile are installed. Currently I am editing /etc/profile and not looking forward to merging updates.
well, why not just add this after the sourcing of profile.env: for f in /etc/profile/profile.d/* ; do source $f done if you want to build upon variables that were set, just be sure to do like export LDPATH="${LDPATH}:blah blah"
I said exactly that in my original post and it is what I have done. It still leaves the problem of upgrading baselayout but I guess I'll just deal with that. I get the feeling this bug report isn't going anywhere.
you're right, i missed that i reassgined to azarah since he's the one to decide whether or not this update happens
This bug has been inactive for more than 300 days. Is this a dup of bug 4854 ?
Probably, since the dir doesn't even exist in gentoo yet.
Resolving... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4854 ***
