From: Meiyo Peng <meiyo.peng@gmail.com>
To: cmmarusich@gmail.com
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: move "source /etc/profile" from .zlogin to .zprofile
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:14:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADCc2gFgx16WEAG5kWnnPuN1MmBhUs3namRJoZX_DLNE_LbSdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sh198g6w.fsf@gmail.com>
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Hi Chris,
/etc/profile should do the preparation work for users settings in .zshrc.
But
since .zlogin is sourced after .zshrc, it will override users settings in
.zshrc. It resets $PATH and many other environment variables. This is
counterintuitive.
You can find what archlinux did here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh
- /etc/zsh/zprofile Used for executing commands at start, will be
sourced when starting as a *login shell*. Please note that on Arch
Linux, by default it contains one line
<https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/zprofile?h=packages/zsh>
which source the /etc/profile.
- /etc/profile This file should be sourced by all Bourne-compatible
shells upon login: it sets up $PATH and other environment variables
and application-specific (/etc/profile.d/*.sh) settings upon login.
- $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile Used for executing user's commands at start, will
be sourced when starting as a *login shell*.
- ...
- $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc Used for setting user's interactive shell
configuration and executing commands, will be sourced when starting
as an *interactive
shell*.
- ...
- $ZDOTDIR/.zlogin Used for executing user's commands at ending of
initial progress, will be sourced when starting as a *login shell*.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 09:34 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is the intended use of .zprofile any different from the intended use of
> .zlogin? If .zprofile and .zlogin are both meant to serve the same
> purpose, then I'm not sure why one would be preferable over the other.
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-14 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-13 15:44 move "source /etc/profile" from .zlogin to .zprofile Meiyo Peng
2018-10-14 1:33 ` Chris Marusich
2018-10-14 1:56 ` Leo Famulari
2018-10-14 6:30 ` Chris Marusich
2018-10-14 7:58 ` Meiyo Peng
2018-10-15 9:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-16 4:59 ` Leo Famulari
2018-10-16 11:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-19 7:47 ` Chris Marusich
2018-10-14 3:14 ` Meiyo Peng [this message]
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