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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#38243: Zsh does not load /etc/profile values by default
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:42:14 +0100
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To: Danny O'Brien <danny@spesh.com>
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Hi Danny,

"Danny O'Brien" <danny@spesh.com> skribis:

> Right now, an installation of zsh as a primary shell won't read in the
> environmental settings in /etc/profile -- it looks for (but doesn't
> find) a /etc/zprofile file instead.
>
> Not sure what the correct approach should be here. We could symlink
> /etc/zprofile to /etc/profile , but that would require knowing that
> /etc/profile was always available. Or we could include a source'ing of
> /etc/profile in /etc/zprofile.
>
> I'm not sure what status /etc/profile holds in Guix -- is it the
> canonical location for any user-wide environment settings?=20

There=E2=80=99s also /etc/environment, honored by =E2=80=98pam_env=E2=80=99=
, and thus
shell-independent.

> Will it be guaranteed to be POSIXly correct, rather than having any
> bashisms?

It=E2=80=99s meant to be POSIX.  If you notice Bash-specific constructs, we=
 can
surely remove those (I see a couple of =E2=80=9Cexport VAR=3Dvalue=E2=80=9D=
, which is not
POSIX, but maybe Zsh supports it?).

Let us know what=E2=80=99s needed!

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.